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Explorations in Academic Blogging: D’Arcy Norman

Academic blogging is quickly emerging as a separate genre. In the first of my series of blog posts, I explored Dr. Terry Anderson’s academic blogging style, and analyzed his blog post on Rethinking Disclosure and Surveillance . I then explored Dr. Tony Bates’ academic blogging style, and though there were several similarities, there were quite a few…

Explorations in Academic Blogging: Tony Bates

Academic blogging is quickly emerging as a separate genre. In the first of my series of blog posts, I explored Dr. Terry Anderson’s academic blogging style, and analyzed his blog post on Rethinking Disclosure and Surveillance . In this post, I explore Dr. Tony Bates’ academic blogging style. My purpose for careful analysis of the writing styles…

Blogging and Literacy Instruction

One of the greatest challenges I have had as a literacy educator is to reconcile the teaching of the strictly academic writing curriculum with real needs of learners whose interests in academic writing are limited. The major obstacle for literacy instruction seems to be that despite curriculum guidelines that require training in formal writing, most learners don’t…

High-Stakes Reflection as Performance Blogging

Path-Finding Activity: I was reviewing Lilia Efimova’s mathemagenic blog, and came across Jen Ross’ blog. Her ideas resonated with me in that I had summarized a crucial issue for student bloggers that needs to be addressed, and found many of her ideas are aligned to mine. I seek to encourage student bloggers to see the…

Sensemaking: The Ideas of Konrad Glogowski

This post is an example of engaging in sense-making, weaving ideas from one source into existing ideas and engaging in critical inquiry and analysis. Sources: (drawing from Tony Bates’ academic blogging format) Konrad Glogowski’s Blog of Proximal Development Glenn Groulx’s Overview of Academic Blogging Konrad Glogowski worked with grade eight learners, and used blogging to encourage…