So this is what’s going on…
I’m currently enrolled in a class that is focusing on blogging and the rhetoric of blogging. We’re beginning a three week long project (which will hopefully stick around after the class is over) that is still undecided, but these are things that my peers and I have discussed:
We want the blog to inform the public, be interactive (physically, I’m thinking something situationist), we want the blog to teach and include something forum like that might allow other professionals to comment and help out. The blog will something that my peers and I can possibly use in a portfolio, but also be helpful to students who aren’t sure how to blog for class and professors who aren’t sure how to ask for blogging from their students.
Image from Chessie higgins!
Personally, I am keenly interested in getting the public involved. I want students to be able to submit questions and ideas via txt message or email or an interactive location to the blog for my peers and I to address. I want to hear from professionals who use blogging in the classroom but also those who aren’t sure how to. I think this project, compiled as a blog, should offer a multimedia experience to those in an academic setting (not limited to the BSU campus).
I prone to like the situationist approach to things. I want this to be extremely interactive using just about as many forms of art and media as possible (sorry WordPress, I want to use Vimeo). I want it to be out there and get noticed. Anything that we get done and publish online should be easily accessible to the general public, filled with input, and sustainable.
So what are your thoughts? What do you think would work on a small campus, what would be helpful, and how should it be done? I want to get this thing out of the classroom and on the streets; we’ll pain the campus/town/world with ideas.
