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Elissa Summer 2009: BlogVoice
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Blog for C&I 630. Wednesday, July 1, 2009. I'll add something about the readings later - this is what's been on my mind yesterday and today.). So clearly I am not literate in blogging discourse. What's odd is, when I was "authentically" blogging with a group with college friends, that never happened - they must have just been used to the way I talk in real life, which is a lot like the way I write, or else my diction didn't seem out of place for our discussions. That's just how I write! I dont think you ...
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Mind Bloggers: July 2009
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Wednesday, July 1, 2009. Questions for Harry and Heather and You. Both efforts threatened the right of children to participate within the imaginative world of Harry Potter." (p.170) To what extent do we threaten the rights of students to participate within any worlds other than the ones we dictate in the reading and writing curricula we design for them? How diverse are we in selecting texts, themes and worlds for our students? What subliminal messages do we send them through the texts we choose for them?
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Mind Bloggers: Tower of Babel Lesson Plan
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Friday, July 11, 2008. Tower of Babel Lesson Plan. Why do you say someone gets ribbed? What sense does that make? What sense does it make to say someone got treated if they're not sick or if you didn't buy them a candy bar? I mean, what do Indians say? Do you guys say "treated" or do you say "ribbed"? I'm from Milwaukee," the addresse replied. "We say ribbed." Chuckle, chuckle from the class. July 11, 2008 at 10:20 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Y'all are the best! Thanks to all in C&I 630.
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Mind Bloggers: June 2009
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Monday, June 29, 2009. Safe House in Urban Environment. They write without being prompted. Does their love for posting and tagging translate to a love for blogging? Is this our version of finding them where they are and taking them (reluctantly) where we want them to go? They do not enjoy blogging! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Y'all are the best! Thanks to all in C&I 630. Safe House in Urban Environment. View my complete profile.
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Mind Bloggers: A & P Parking Lot
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Wednesday, July 9, 2008. A and P Parking Lot. Our universal notions of good writing become a totalizing program of design control." This implies that students only become good writers when they follow the traditions that we set forth, when they lose their exuberance. When they become us. That might explain why some excursions in urban writing goes over well and others might not. If the instructor, for example, is more in tune with urbanism. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Y'all are the best!
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Mind Bloggers: A Letter to Grace
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Thursday, July 10, 2008. A Letter to Grace. When I arrived in Milwaukee, a southern girl hundreds of miles away from home, away from all that I had ever known, no family, no friends, no "Safe House," I, too, was afraid. But not of teaching, not of classroom settings. I was confident about my subject and gave no thought to discipline. What did I know about urban schools and ghettos? I was a teacher! But let me tell you another story. When my daughter was three, the two of us were returning from Chicag...
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Elissa Summer 2009: Response to Readings for 6/25
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Blog for C&I 630. Wednesday, June 24, 2009. Response to Readings for 6/25. Yancey brought up an interesting concept with the phrase " citizen writers. What could a citizen writer be, or do? Apparently they can play large-scale practical jokes (see "This is Sparta,"), but what else? Traditionally, citizenship has been a dividing line, between us. Could the Web be changing this in some ways? In the other piece by Yancey, she uses two phrases on p. 319 that seem to go along with this idea of citizen wri...
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Thoughts on Things: Beating Us Down...Exercise in Reflection and Change
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Monday, June 30, 2008. Beating Us Down.Exercise in Reflection and Change. The beauty of the blog is that I can play with the genre of the journal and infuse it with some academic elements of logic and support as I try to get my thoughts in order, and like Williams, mess around with and challenge convention, to a degree. In other words, I can ramble and skip from one subject to another without too much worry about criticism. And poor grades for convoluted writing: stream of consciousness, baby! I can see ...
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Mind Bloggers: Questions for Harry and Heather and You
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Wednesday, July 1, 2009. Questions for Harry and Heather and You. Both efforts threatened the right of children to participate within the imaginative world of Harry Potter." (p.170) To what extent do we threaten the rights of students to participate within any worlds other than the ones we dictate in the reading and writing curricula we design for them? How diverse are we in selecting texts, themes and worlds for our students? What subliminal messages do we send them through the texts we choose for them?
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Mind Bloggers: Bartholomae's Conversation with Elbow
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Wednesday, July 9, 2008. Bartholomae's Conversation with Elbow. Classroom arrangement sometimes has no effect on the perceived distribution of power. Even in a circle, the teacher is most often still recognized as being in control. On rare occasions, the reverse can be true. The teacher can be front and center and still not be the one with the power. Is it really possible to disguise the "unequal distribution of power"? I am not sure to what extent classroom arrangement affects writing. Circles?
