How do we engage in shared knowledge production? Last fall, I tried an experiment with my Queering Theory students: I made all of their assignments directly connected to our course blog. At the end of the semester, I asked them to reflect on the process and what they did and didn’t like about our blogging […]

I don’t have much time to write/reflect lately, so I’m just posting here as a place holder of some of the writing I’ve done over the last week. Here are my thoughts on visibility. The second one is 255 words, I hope that this is ok, I realize the other one is not yet at […]

After some pretty stressful weeks of dissertation revisions I have finally caught my breath enough to revise our section on accessibility. From what I remember of our discussion we wanted to switch the Brian Solis quote/data to a footnote and cite some specific feminist work there instead. Let me know if you think that works. […]

Here is the first part of my comments on creating community. This is a slightly revised/shortened version of something that I wrote on my trouble blog last summer. Is that cheating? How can we establish community through authenticity and accountability? Writing in a public forum like a blog can help us to be more accountable […]

I could say a lot more about comments here. I didn’t even discuss the problems with bad, as in disrespectful and disengaged, ones. I also didn’t talk about how comments remind us that this is a public blog, thereby encouraging us to be accountable for our words/actions. Hmm…maybe I want to briefly add that in […]

These brief comments can be hard! 150-200 words is pretty short. Why are instilling confidence and the desire to experiment with blogs important? One slogan kept coming up in our discussions about training and blogging pedagogy: “This isn’t a how-to manual; it’s an invitation to engage.” In fact, there can never be a comprehensive how-to […]

Here are my comments on visibility. I decided to focus on exposure instead of visibility. I can’t remember if I actually wrote about exposure on any posts, but I do remember bringing it up a few times. While it isn’t the only way I want to think about visibility, it seems to fit well with […]