English 397: Theory and Practice of Blogging

 

Dr. Dale Jacobs

Winter 2009

 

MW 10:00-11:20

ER 2125

 

Course Summary

This course aims to examine blogs and the blogosphere in order to think about the usefulness of this kind of writing as a tool for communication, learning, and dialogue.  In this course, we explore the possibilities of blogging, by keeping blogs ourselves, reading a variety of blogs, and theorizing and analyzing existing blogs and blog culture.  We will concentrate on thinking about purposes, audiences, and the contexts for blogging.  In questioning, exploring and working together, we will become better writers and readers and that we will be to use blogging as a generative tool, both as readers and as writers.

English 397 Syllabus

English 397 Projects (Fall 2007)

Blogging and Privacy Issues

Blogging and Ethics

Blogging and Censorship (Free Speech)

Blogging and Intellectual Property

Blogging and the Workplace 

Outside Resources

HTML

General HTML Tutorial

HTML Code Tutorial

HTML (Wikipedia)

RSS Readers (Aggregators) -- Web-based

Bloglines

Google Reader

Rojo

RSS Readers (Aggregators) -- Desktop

NetNewsReader (Mac OS X)

SharpReader (Windows)

Social Bookmarking Sites

del.icio.us

Digg

Reddit

StumbleUpon

MyBlogLog - looks to be specifically aimed at bloggers and blog readers