So, I know this is a part of our “official” plans for what we were supposed to do this week but I think it connects because I was reviewing some resources I had put aside as I was preparing for our discussion on “Creating Community” and I think that we’ve mentioned that a further way […]

Here are three examples of how I used the blog successfully for writing and teaching. Example one: This is a feminist issue because… (Here’s what I said about this category on an earlier blog entry): I developed a category on my feminist debates course blog titled, “This is a feminist issue because…”. Students were required to […]

InsideHighered.com seems to be a great place to go for information on teaching with technology. I just found this article about teaching with blogs this morning. Check out what the author writes about how he handles privacy and FERPA issues in the classroom: Yet there remains one troubling element: student privacy. Is open blogging this […]

Hey KCF! Since we are interested in linking feminist blogging with feminist consciousness-raising, I thought that I better review Tracy L.M. Kennedy’s article on blogging and virtual consciousness-raising (which you link to in your post) before our meeting on Friday. I like this passage: There are several specific ways in which blogging as a virtual […]

Questions: How does using blogs in the classroom and blogging while teaching enable you to access your feminist self/selves? What is/are your feminist self/selves? Any examples from your blogs? This is a big question that I feel I need to break down into smaller parts. First, what is my feminist self? I decided to write […]

Here’s our plan: First, write a few paragraphs on the two questions that I posted on this comment: How does using blogs in the classroom and blogging while teaching enable you to access your feminist self/selves? What is/are your feminist self/selves? Any examples from your blogs? Second, read through past blog entries (on this blog […]

The theme for this week’s discussion was training. Without our new love, Snowball, we lacked the motivation to actually record our conversation. It’s too bad (imho) because we had some great things to say. Oh well. Here are the highlights (at least, the ideas that I can decipher from my very messy notes). 1. Blog […]

I just (finally) listened to Visibility 3 and 4. Some great stuff, including my admission that I just saw Eclipse. Here are some of the ideas I want to highlight: Blogs provide us with the opportunity to rethink and experiment with new ways of evaluating our students. We can give feedback (without grades because of privacy […]

Here are a few recent resources related to blogging, technology, accessibility and feminist teaching. 1. How do we make our blogs more accessible to blind readers? 2. What skills do we need to be digitally literate? 3. Less than 25%? Really? 4. Young Feminists to Old Feminists: If you can’t find us, it’s because we’re […]

So far we have designed this blog, wrote a bunch of entries on it, created several about pages, and completed/posted our first dialogue on visibility. And we have met for several hours on three different Fridays. I think we have done a lot! But how can we translate all of this work into a book […]

I just finished listening to parts 1 and 2 of our visibility dialogue–it was really fun to hear our conversation (even though it was scary too–it can be hard to listen to yourself and hear how your ideas sometimes come out jumbled and awkward)! I think I see the power of podcasts. Last year, I […]

Here is our first dialogue, in four parts, on visibility. This dia(b)logue took place at SLP’s house on a hot Friday afternoon (July 16th). Visibility 1, Visibility 2, Visibility 3 and Visibility 4