KCF: The process of writing this article has been a journey of collaboration on many levels. I have really responded to the process of working together and the use of different venues for conversation (blogging, writing together, conversing in person and online) have really allowed me to think about how ideas grow, evolve, and become […]

Here’s the tentative title that I came up: “This is not a how-to manual but an invitation to engage: A Feminist Blogging Manifesto by a Chicana Feminist and a White Feminist Troublemaker” Here are some key passages from the cfp that I would be interested in addressing/thinking about: Given the fact that ignoring or rejecting […]

I finally did it! Feeling like this took years to do, I am really valuing the flexibility of blogging (which is not a topic we’ve really spoken about) but how a blog will always be there for you when you’re ready to post! Thank you Diablogical for helping me get t his out, and SLP […]

Training Being confident and excited about experimenting on blogs Sometimes students can express some trepidation with having to blog even though we often think of students who are entering college as being very familiar with the tools of “the digital age.” However, if you spend time training students on the basics of how to use […]

Here is my post (albeit a bit late) on my thoughts on how I use blogs as tools of engagement. I’m going to blame finishing my diss. and starting a new teaching job as the reason for this, I know you (SLP) know the crazy summer I’ve had. So, no more complaining, just doing! Our […]

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 […]

After another very productive meeting SLP and I have the (final?!) game plan for the rest of the month and all of the work we will be doing to finish up our chapter. We also have decided to submit a more reflective piece to Radical Teacher. See the call for papers here. Since this article […]

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 […]