Blogging Overview
Blogs are an exciting way to share your own writing with others. A blog gives you a chance to voice your thoughts to the world (or at least the world as represented by those people who can find your blog). Since so many people are using blogs these days, we’ll spend some time learning how to use blogs and thinking about their implications for literacy education in the 21st Century.
Dr. Pagnucci’s Blog
- Comics, Coronavirus, & Composition…and Popcorn!
- A blog telling the story of 3 Comics Studies Scholars rewatching the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Blog Basics
- Wikipedia Definition: “blog”
- Assignment: Research Blog
Blog Entry Tasks
- Blog Entry: First Blog Entry (Technology Explorations)
- Literacy
- Casting Project
- Group Book Project
- What is technology?
- Dissertation Topics
- New Technology
- Tech Teaching
- IUP Experiences
- Second Life
- IUP Blog Login
- The HawkEye (IUP independent journalism blog)
IASD Blog Workshop
- Using Blogs for Teaching: A Workshop for the Indiana Area School District
Blog Terminology
Blog Tools
- Blogger.com (free blog service)
- Blo.gs (a tool for tracking blogs)
- WordPress.org (free blog service)
Blogging Articles
- “When Blogging Goes Bad” by Steven D. Krause (Department of English Language and Literature at Eastern Michigan University)
- “Death at 25: Blogging the End of a Life” by Madison Park (CNN)
- The Student Writer as Blogger: A Longitudinal Study of a Blogger’s Critical Narrative Events (2010; Chapter 1) by Dr. Eric Glicker (IUP Alumni; now teaching at Michigan State University)
Other Cool Blogs
- Baseball Poetry Blog by David Schaafsma of the University of Illinois at Chicago
- HuffPost College (the Internet newspaper)
- Literacy Blog by Dennis Jerz of Seton Hill University (winner of the John Lovas Memorial Academic Weblog Award at the 2009 Computers and Writing Conference)
- Vitual Politik Blog by Elizabeth Losh (about digital rhetoric)
- StevenDKrause.com
- Sample academic blog by Dr. Steven Krause
- Blogging expert and composition scholar
- Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Eastern Michigan University
- “What Star Trek Can Teach Us About Writing” by Kristen Lamb