Making use of this writing space, I decided to post my lesson plan here instead of putting it on the discussion board.
Lesson Plan February 23, 2010
10:30 Housekeeping business
10:35 Check in
- How was the blogging experience?
- Was this a more friendly technology than the discussion board? How so?
- Did it change the way you compose?
10:45 Class Discussion
- What is the nature of blogging? What can you do with a blog?
- Is it a writing tool? Or a writing space? Or both?
- What different genres of blogs have you encountered? Most familiar with?
- What conventions (writing style or other) do you see already in terms of blogging?
- What about in terms of identity/persona creation?
- Does knowing you have an audience affect the ways you write?
- The act of blogging as a performance? How true is this?
- Community building (the idea of the discourse community. (a term in composition studies to refer to a group of people with shared assumptions, common knowledge, and similar ways of interpreting things. Oftentimes, a particular discourse community will involve a different set of vocabulary.)
- Persona/identity building
11:10 Introduce New Concept
- Hypertext: a remediation of print
- Refers to a network of interconnected writings
- Discrete units of a hypertext: pages, paragraphs, graphics, and links. One can say that these are some conventions of the blog, of a hypertext
- Defining characteristic of a hypertext—its ability to allow for highly associative writings (writing based on connections)
- Unlike the printed text, the hypertext is more dynamic
- The pages are “hot” changing as one link brings up a new page and so on and so forth
- The authors use links to define relationships and these links become a rhetorical tool
- The readers interact with the text, depending on what link the readers choose to navigate to, they’re determining what connections to make. Different ways of “reading” a hypertext
11:15-Class Activity
