Facilitating Community Blogging Circles
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. Continue reading Blogging for Conative Development
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 Continue reading High-Stakes Reflective Blogging within Cohorts
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 Continue reading StoryTents, StoryWagons – What a Great Idea!
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. Continue reading Citing Sources: Berry-Picking Example
Just as some of us are disheartened when no one replies, and we end up blogging for ourselves always wondering if anyone is reading the posts, and asking ourselves whether the whole blogging enterprise is a case of vanity publishing, others are surprised at the less-than positive comments and criticism and assumptions about our post. Continue reading Overcoming Blogger’s Block: Inner and Outer Critics