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Blogging for Conative Development

Conation is defined as the “connection of knowledge and affect to behaviour. It involves the personal, intentional, plan-ful, deliberate, goal-oriented, striving component of motivation. It is proactive, and is associated with the concept of volition, or the use of will. It is a critical element in successful self-direction and self-regulation.

High-Stakes Reflective Blogging within Cohorts

This is a follow-up to Jen Ross’ excellent comment, which I insert here: …from my point of view the danger isn’t so much ridicule and indifference as a construction of a writing self that ‘hides its own mechanisms’ – that pretends there is no audience and no strategic choices being made for the benefit of…

StoryTents, StoryWagons – What a Great Idea!

I have been following Wendell Dryden’s blog, Qualities – Communities – Literacies, and have been following his series of posts on “storytents” and storywagons. These inspire me to think about planning for community literacy projects for next summer, now that the arduous three + years of graduate work is finished, and I finally have time to…

Protected: Using Blogs for Blended Instruction: A Case Study with Adult Literacy Students

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Citing Sources: Berry-Picking Example

The act of creating links from your blog to specific pages of others’ web sites or blog posts, is a useful way to connect to others’ ideas, but we need to remind learners to always cite their sources, and introduce the links as belonging to someone else. There should also always be some context surrounding why that link was selected, how it was found, and a brief description of its significance.