Playing with Blogs

Playing with Blogs Jason B. Jones Associate Professor / English jonesjason1@ccsu.edu

Why Blogs? Blogs are about writing , reading, quoting, and linking .

Why Blogs? Informality permits risk.

Why Blogs? Blogs are a gateway drug for social media.

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Ivanhoe: What I wanted More frequent, lower-stakes assignments

Ivanhoe: What I wanted A relaxed way to practice interpretation

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Part II: Why Twitter? Because I’m too old for Facebook

Why Twitter? 140 characters = good discipline

Why Twitter? Real-time feedback about teaching

Why blog? Experiment with voice.

Why blog? If you talk about it, they will find you.

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Is there a test? http://jbj.wordherders.net On Twitter: jbj On Delicious: jbj On Flickr: jbj

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