Category Archives: Blogging Skills

Starting Blogging: Consider your Focus

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Getting started is one of the toughest things to do..you don’t know who your audience is. You feel weird typing words on a blank text field you are unsure anyone will read.

First, write for yourself. What can you blog today that will have value to you a year from now? Posting your vacation pictures and video clips is a great first start. you want to add as much detail as possible to ensure the post has cues to prompt your memories. Maybe add a voice recording to your text descriptions and photos, to add more you(as you are now) into the post. Continue reading Starting Blogging: Consider your Focus→

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Think-Aloud Blogging – Preparing for Formal Writing

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One of the concerns I have about enabling student blogging is that sometimes academics (and students, I hasten to add) entering into blogging with students have not themselves clearly identified heuristics for handling self-sponsored writing – blogging by students that is reflective, emotional and highly personal, and often not directly connected with anything being taught in the course. Continue reading Think-Aloud Blogging – Preparing for Formal Writing→

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Adding Texture to Academic Blog Posts

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Using Footnotes to describe way-making , and add context Using Title HTML tags to define, and elaborate on concepts Signalling register and voice changes Signalling in-line edits with the combination of the strikethrough and italics keys Inserting revisions and updates Continue reading Adding Texture to Academic Blog Posts→

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Explorations in Academic Blogging: D’Arcy Norman

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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 Continue reading Explorations in Academic Blogging: D’Arcy Norman→

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