Monday, January 17, 2011

Still working on day two

I am determined to spend at least ten minutes a day on this, as I know the rest of you are. I am experimenting with this new form of writing, not sure how it will fit into the way I've been doing things. In the interest of openness to new literacies, and in a quest to find a way to balance the content of this class, the readings, discussions, etc with the writing portion of this class (on campus it's easy to get both) I committed to spending a semester blogging and I will see how this works for my students.
Working on my courses today, I had in the back of my mind the whole time-"What I am I going to write about?"  What do I write about when I know that mainly my college students will be the audience? (Any other member of the audience arrived here completely at random). Knowing that my students will be reading this and that I am solely in the role of professor will most certainly (we can only hope) narrow my range of topics and affect the way I address things, the language I use, and maybe for a while how stupid I am willing to look. I have never written like this on a daily basis as a professor. For years I have kept notebooks, and often I share the contents with my students. But the notebook is not in itself a platform that is solely Dr. Tower's. So is writing a way to help you figure out who you are, even when you are not being every part of yourself? Hmmm.... I always learn new things about writing as I teach this class, and this experience will likely give us some new perspective on audience, in the least.
This will be interesting, because I am hoping not to post lectures, we have the class for those things, the course platform I mean. I am looking to participate in this experience with my class. Most of us have not done this before, and I don't think any of us have done this for a class before.
So I wonder what topics I will choose, what kind of writing I will do. I think that will depend upon our responses to each other-we will then through this learn about the role of response in the teaching of writing...

1 comment:

  1. I really love that you've chosen to use blogging as part of this class. I look forward to learning about myself and others in this class throughout our time together.

    ReplyDelete