i'm not ready to do "Shattuck's Weekly Blog Riff" -- my review of students' blogs --- but i just went through the list and scanned everybody's blogs. lots of folks haven't posted since our lab time a week ago. but some people, like jt, misha, and joey, have posted. just wanted to say that i spent some time reading joey's blog, which has some deep deep thoughts. i'm still playing with this blogging thing and trying to figure out how to work it in the classroom. so far, i asked everybody to read my blog and respond to my blog on their blogs. (the word "blog" appeared entirely too many times in that last sentence.) maybe i could also choose a student blog of the week and ask everyone to read that blog and respond. i wonder if joey would mind if i asked everyone to read his blog and respond????? any volunteers???? i have got to get off this computer and get some sleep.

forgot to answer Julie's question --- yes, you can read all the students' blogs. they're linked on the right side of my blog.

just re-read recent posts and want to comment on julie's post of 14 sept.
first of all, Brianne's post to the webboard is intense! i love julie's response that Brianne is usually a quiet student in class and then she has this powerful written voice that gets read by her peers, her teacher, and now all these bloggin' fools in Alabama! absolutely one of the reasons the technology intrigues me ... when I taught the cybergrrls and wired women class at UMBC, i remember one of the students talking about how she ruled on the MOO (MOO=something like a chat interface) cuz she typed so fast and was so quick-witted but her persona in class tended to be kinda mousy. and her experiences online then affected her class persona and she started to speak up more.

and then there's the content of Brianne's post, and i just want to say that some major legislation has passed ... FCC rulings that companies can own huge chunks of all kinds of media just recently got repealed (16 Sept. vote in the House)... and a lot of the resistance was grassroots on the internet!!! check out MoveOn's discussion of the issue and the protest they led. further votes will take place, so this issue is ongoing...check it out and find out more!!! where do you stand?

oops...no class today, since everybody gets time to go do field research for the profile paper. so i didn't have my routine of going to office after class and blogging about class. but guess what. even if i did have the routine, i still wouldn't have been able to blog, because the internet is STILL down at A&M. argh.

also, i found out today that Octoberfest has been cancelled. this is supremely yucky. octoberfest is a writing conference held each year at A&M and is run by the A&M Writing Project and the A&M/UAH Inservice Center, and lots of teachers in the area attend workshops on aspects of writing. nationally acclaimed writers also give talks and sign books. but because Alabama voted down the proposition to give more money to education and other necessities, one of the first things cut was professional development...that is, monies needed to hire substitute teachers so that Alabama teachers could attend Octoberfest and perhaps improve their skills and network...well, all that won't happen.