11.05.2003
More Info on Observation Blogs
As a group, your observation blog should be interactive, particularly using squawkbox to comment on each other's observations and to provide feedback on what direction or possible research question the blogger can pursue. Therefore, I suggest that you comment on one/two observations a week to at least one of your fellow group members. Secondly, you should all post your electronic URLs somewhere in your blog for me and others to access. Any other questions that you have may be posted here?
Class Activities
Hello All,
Today I'd like you to do Blog #5 on the diy presentations that we were very lucky to witness, sans technical difficulties. I'd like you to choose one or two presentations by any of the class members to discuss in terms of the kinds of literacy narratives presented. Was the form of the narration effective? Why or why not? What was the project's focus and did it communicate a relationship to technology? If so, what was it? Was the technology presented in the DIY project viewed from a critical point of view? in other words, how is this technology used by the presenter and are there other ways in which it can viewed in a more or less critical way? Besides all that, discuss what you liked and didn't like about the presentation.
Second on the agenda is the blogging observation journal. After you're done with your blogging assignment, I'd like you to get together with your group and discuss how you are going to organize your observation journal blog. If you create a new blog, let me know the URL. Also, the observation journal should be kept pretty consistently--by that I mean you should be visiting your site at least 3X a week and giving us snapshots of what is going on there and how you are going to approach this community critically.
Today I'd like you to do Blog #5 on the diy presentations that we were very lucky to witness, sans technical difficulties. I'd like you to choose one or two presentations by any of the class members to discuss in terms of the kinds of literacy narratives presented. Was the form of the narration effective? Why or why not? What was the project's focus and did it communicate a relationship to technology? If so, what was it? Was the technology presented in the DIY project viewed from a critical point of view? in other words, how is this technology used by the presenter and are there other ways in which it can viewed in a more or less critical way? Besides all that, discuss what you liked and didn't like about the presentation.
Second on the agenda is the blogging observation journal. After you're done with your blogging assignment, I'd like you to get together with your group and discuss how you are going to organize your observation journal blog. If you create a new blog, let me know the URL. Also, the observation journal should be kept pretty consistently--by that I mean you should be visiting your site at least 3X a week and giving us snapshots of what is going on there and how you are going to approach this community critically.
