Blogging Skills | Walking Stick Blogger

Drawing the Lines: Private and Public Masks

Masks in Writing We have to be very aware of how we use our maks (our pre-conceived, socialized roles that govern our values, thoughts, and actions) while blogging. We can sometimes let ourselves drift while blogging, and don different writers’ masks at different times in different circumstances. For example, this segment was written 24 hours…

Blogging Skills – Outcomes

This brief overview of some of the key learning outcomes for the blogging skills seminar aims to practice connective writing (“blogging”) within a social learning practice network, and emphasizes hands-on practice in berry-picking, jigging, piling, setting, weaving, and texturing processes. Learners will be able to: Identify, evaluate and select and collect a variety of online resources to create blog…

Reflections on Assessing Blogging Activity

The extent to which one can successfully weave personally meaningful content into one’s own posts can be best assessed by an individual blogger using what I would refer to as the “tether test”. The tether test idea was inspired while I was addressing a question at an ETUG workshop about how relevant an online archive…

On Weaving Ideas – Exemplar for Practice

The post is an exemplar as it provides a template for student bloggers engaging in tentative meaning-making activities. This type of blogging examplifies process-capture, drawing ideas from others’ texts and re-working them from one’s own perspective. The techniques offer clues to the readers. However, more importantly, I think, the clues offer context cues for easier retrieval to facilitate the blogger’s re-using the blog post as a future resource to build upon.

Getting your Blog Ready to Go Live

My sister wanted to know what blogs did and why they are being used for instruction. In her case, she asked about setting up a blog for her French class. She identified a project it might support, in which her students would correspond with students in France in both French and English. I asked her…