tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50878192011-08-22T08:04:32.948-05:00blip blog bleepblogging in advanced compositionSandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00642628390788542991noreply@blogger.comBlogger451100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5087819.post-1106352973191493082005-01-21T18:11:00.000-06:002005-01-21T18:16:13.190-06:00ok, this is weird. blogger isn't giving me a title box for this post, and i'm wondering if it will actually go through. let's see.
I'm tired. Seems like a long week. Don't particularly want to write, but that's ok. Wow. That was one of those classes where I felt like I kept losing the subject, losing the class. Not pretty. I wrote about it after class. There's this cool thing called a Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00642628390788542991noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5087819.post-1076008070182544372004-02-05T13:07:00.000-06:002004-02-05T13:13:06.060-06:00Shattuck's Weekly Blog Riff - Wow! Rochanda has posted twice! And she has two jobs! Check out her story at lovejones. Several of you talked in your first posts (discuss experience of setting up your blog) about the benefits of blogging. I like what Michael says -- that a blog might help to "break down barriers that keep us from interacting and sharing with each other." Check out Michael's words Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00642628390788542991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5087819.post-1075838676369084292004-02-03T14:04:00.000-06:002004-02-03T14:06:16.653-06:00I've corrected Wendell's URL, so that link works. Shemeka's and Jimmy's URLs still aren't working. I'm trying to recreate the error Wendell was talking about, but I can't even find a refresh button. We need some time in the lab! Blogger seems to give me two different interfaces when I access my blog. Do not know why. Makes it hard to give out instructions.
OK, enough complaining. I'm excited Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00642628390788542991noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5087819.post-1075305962196633482004-01-28T09:49:00.000-06:002004-01-28T10:07:40.326-06:00OK, I haven't touched my computer until right now. And if you knew how many times I access email and the web on a daily basis, you'd know that this flu is kicking my entire body. Don't get this flu. It's a monster-nasty flu.
I don't want y'all to lose precious writing time just because I'm home sick. So here are some assignments. I'm taking more time than I usually do for the pre-writing/Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00642628390788542991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5087819.post-1074871950402849642004-01-23T09:30:00.000-06:002004-01-23T09:33:59.170-06:00Yeah, Robert -- another blog is up and running and Alpha's World gets the prize for the most persistent -- staying up until 3.37 am to get a blog up indicates true techie bulldoggedness...a necessary trait to be patient with technology. And Christina, thanks for using the word "challenging" in your blog...I don't know if you're like me, but I enjoy challenges. They help me to learn.Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00642628390788542991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5087819.post-1074741721318460132004-01-21T21:19:00.000-06:002004-01-21T21:23:28.780-06:00all right! April and Chris have both emailed me with their blog addresses. I like that April calls hers "aprilshowers" and that Chris calls his the Artistic Diary of Chris Yancy. Chris promises to share his poetry and songwriting. I am way psyched! looking forward to reading postings. Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00642628390788542991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5087819.post-1074720283395036472004-01-21T15:23:00.000-06:002004-01-21T15:26:10.483-06:00FIRST POST Spring 2004 --- ****YES!!! We have a winner! Rochanda clocked in as the quickest student ever to set up her blog. Check out links to the right to get to everybody's blogs quickly. I'm curious to see if the directions I handed out in class will make it easier for folks to get blogging more quickly. We'll see. OK. I'm outta here. Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00642628390788542991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5087819.post-1069179143049706642003-11-18T12:12:00.000-06:002003-11-18T12:12:46.903-06:00Julie, thanks for mentioning the Paula Gunn Allen reference...I did know about it and it's a position I always talk about when I discuss the novel. Came up in the discussion Dr. Basaninyenzi and I had...we were the only folks who showed up for the group. I'm not sure if the group will continue. I need to be working on moving these discussions into institutionally sanctioned settings...ahem...the Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00642628390788542991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5087819.post-1068677511074041422003-11-12T16:49:00.000-06:002003-11-12T16:52:07.226-06:00Oh, Sandy, I forgot to tell you that Paula Gunn Allen has an essay that critiques Silko's Ceremony on the grounds that in it she reveals native secrets that should not be told. The title of the article is something like, "Special Problems in Teaching Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony." Have you heard of it? Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04126425060012647746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5087819.post-1068677282715569512003-11-12T16:29:00.000-06:002003-11-12T16:47:59.633-06:00Hi, it's me--Julie.
My rhetorical theory class was incredible today. This is what happened: On Monday we were talking about the 2004 presidential election and how Democrats might create an image for themselves that might be more persuasive. When we were naming different candidates, (and I was writing their names on the board), one student shouted out, "The black guy." I was momentarily Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04126425060012647746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5087819.post-1067966886260300062003-11-04T11:28:00.000-06:002003-11-04T11:32:41.973-06:00ack...very frustrated with my ability to teach class today. there's some confusion about the explaining a concept paper. i don't think i did a great job of clarifying. ugh. also, we didn't start class with a timed writing practice, which i have tried to do every class. i felt we needed to get to work...hm, why do i think that discussing essays is getting to work while free writing is play??? Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00642628390788542991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5087819.post-1067534335238341132003-10-30T11:18:00.000-06:002003-10-30T11:18:43.046-06:00OK, I'm up in my office. Class was pretty quiet. We did a freewrite, then folks exchanged papers and did peer reviews. I'm thinking how to revise this class for next semester. I think my teaching style has been good for those students who are self-motivated. For those students who require points taken off if they don't do things exactly according to a plan, then I think this class hasn't been as Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00642628390788542991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5087819.post-1067176159739104712003-10-26T07:43:00.000-06:002003-10-26T07:49:18.896-06:00oh...my...gosh. my friend Ana (the person who introduced me to blogs!) just sent me an email with a link to www.misbehaving.net, a fairly new blog on women and technology. all kinds of excellent information that i can use for my paper on blogging. or if not for the current paper, certainly for my conference paper i'm doing in the spring. so here's the thing: tell everybody what you're writing Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00642628390788542991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5087819.post-1067036653885991672003-10-24T17:51:00.000-05:002003-10-24T18:05:48.993-05:00I spoke with Ms. Alfreda Sullivan-Handy today and she's agreed to be a team member of my blog. Yea! Also, while I sat in my deserted classes, I also worked through the guidelines for chapter 5 -- I'm doing an Explaining a Concept essay on "blogging." I gotta say...I really resist guidelines, and I get very impatient working through the steps that the textbook suggests. But my impatience is worth Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00642628390788542991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5087819.post-1066916424773482642003-10-23T08:26:00.000-05:002003-10-23T08:42:12.116-05:00I JUST noticed that Julie posted .... I was so busy trying to get the assignment for our class in the lab, I didn't even bother to read before the post. I love when Julie posts cuz it surprises me! I get jolted out of thinking that somehow I own this writing space, whatever that means. I get reminded that writing is a social, collaborative activity...no matter how much we do the act of writing bySandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00642628390788542991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5087819.post-1066751476862681602003-10-21T10:51:00.000-05:002003-10-24T18:11:58.893-05:00I am in one of my "Ack, A&M drives me nuts" days...the streaming lab has 15 functioning computers. It's in a brand-new room (the new A&M library or Learning Resource Center - LRC - officially opened last spring) but half the room has non-functioning computers -- they're either ancient or unwired or both. CPUs are jumbled on tables in the other half of the room along with unhooked-up scanners and Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00642628390788542991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5087819.post-1066742208465418702003-10-21T08:07:00.000-05:002003-10-21T09:47:53.996-05:00Lab Session - assignment for today:
if you have your topic for the explaining a concept essay, please complete "Researching the Concept" (219) & "Focusing the Concept" (219-220) and write your answers on your blog
if you have not chosen your topic, please complete "Finding a Concept to Write About" (217-218) and write your answers/exploration on your blog
after you finish writing, exchange Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00642628390788542991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5087819.post-1066602984588352612003-10-19T17:36:00.000-05:002003-10-19T17:36:24.396-05:00I'm wondering if anyone actually found the Streaming Lab! What were you doing there? What a name!
Students handed in their first batch of papers, so I've been trying to get back into the swing of things re: grading. I hate grading. I really do. I know you do, too, Sandy. But, students seem to really NEED grades, which obligates me to grade responsibly and well. And I think I do a pretty Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04126425060012647746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5087819.post-1066483308760323552003-10-18T08:18:00.000-05:002003-10-18T08:21:48.703-05:00CLASS ON TUES., 21 OCTOBER - will be in the Streaming Lab in the LRC. Go to front entrance of library (across from Patton Hall parking lot), take a right through double doors and you'll be facing the entrance to the library computer lab. Don't enter there. Take a left down the hall and go into the third door on the right. You'll see a room full of computers. That's where we'll be. Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00642628390788542991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5087819.post-1066150660197242622003-10-14T11:57:00.000-05:002003-10-14T11:58:33.536-05:00When Shannon came to my office the other day, she told me that her blogger user name is "aries14" not "aries04," which is what I used. I finally just fixed the link to Shannon's blog and I got caught up reading all her stuff, which I missed reading all semester. Shannon, you really do have the choice to read your writing or not. A lot of people make the choice not to read. I'd love to hear your Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00642628390788542991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5087819.post-1066150350140419422003-10-14T11:52:00.000-05:002003-10-14T11:52:30.336-05:00Jermisha came into class late this morning and asked me, "Have you read my blog yet? Cuz it explains why I'm late." That's gotta be a poststructuralist moment if I ever had one. I realized that I really like having this long list of student blogs linked on the right side. I sit down and read them all. Just click on a blog, read it, click on the back arrow, then read the next one. And by the way, Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00642628390788542991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5087819.post-1065372718293072002003-10-05T11:51:00.000-05:002003-10-05T11:54:12.850-05:00I just logged on and everything looks different--there's all this stuff on the right side that wasn't there before. Did you change the settings or something, Sandy? I think I liked it the old way better because . . . it was the OLD way! Ha!
Just getting over a hellacious cold. I PROcessed with my students re: webboard last week, and some said access is NOT as easy as everyone in admin seems Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04126425060012647746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5087819.post-1065274726889373782003-10-04T08:37:00.000-05:002003-10-04T08:39:08.086-05:00ok, i'm about to take off and go find the A&M parade. i just posted on Dawn's blog. that was fun! if anybody's reading this, go read Jermisha's blog -- she's posting like a writing diva!Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00642628390788542991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5087819.post-1065115639453415942003-10-02T12:27:00.000-05:002003-10-02T13:25:35.183-05:00still haven't finished my Not-so-weekly Blog Riff -- will have to finish later. i'm in my office, office hours. Jeanetta just came by and she posted to her blog ... she knew how to access her blog (go to www.blogger.com, sign in username and password, click on name of blog), how to post (type a post into the text box), get her post onto her blog (click on "post & publish"). I showed her how to Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00642628390788542991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5087819.post-1064946130314307732003-09-30T13:22:00.000-05:002003-09-30T13:22:10.226-05:00Shattuck's Not-so-weekly Blog Riff -- ok, i just read everybody's blogs. didn't take long cuz most folks haven't posted since 11 sept. when we were in the lab.
before i go any further: big deep huge apologies to Phantane, whose name I have been consistently mispronouncing. I promise I will now say "Fontaine" --- if I don't, it's only cuz I'm getting older and may forget, not because i'm Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00642628390788542991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5087819.post-1064944902316517652003-09-30T13:01:00.000-05:002003-09-30T13:01:42.430-05:00so, Julie, yeah...tell the grad. students that you're tired of being the entire pep squad. in what way do you feel as if you provide all the energy? how so? you have taught me lots about the benefits of attending to process in the class, with the class, so I'm curious to see how your grad students respond. i'm also interested in hearing your undergrad students' comments on the web board.
i don'tSandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00642628390788542991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5087819.post-1064266542620187862003-09-22T16:29:00.000-05:002003-09-22T16:37:29.530-05:00That is SUCH a huge bummer about Octoberfest being canceled. And October is right about the time that I, as a teacher, feel like I need some major refueling, and those teachers won't get it. But hey, at least the War On Terror is still being funded.
Speaking of energy, I'm feeling low on it, and I'm especially bothered that, in my graduate classes, I feel like students keep looking to me to be Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04126425060012647746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5087819.post-1063944146120179322003-09-18T22:57:00.000-05:002003-09-18T23:02:26.243-05:00i'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 Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00642628390788542991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5087819.post-1063942912470133422003-09-18T22:40:00.000-05:002003-09-18T22:41:52.030-05:00forgot to answer Julie's question --- yes, you can read all the students' blogs. they're linked on the right side of my blog. Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00642628390788542991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5087819.post-1063942741017724302003-09-18T22:27:00.000-05:002003-09-18T22:39:00.610-05:00just 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 ... Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00642628390788542991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5087819.post-1063941496941945022003-09-18T22:12:00.000-05:002003-09-18T22:18:16.830-05:00oops...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 supremelySandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00642628390788542991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5087819.post-1063584399306543292003-09-14T18:56:00.000-05:002003-09-14T19:06:39.383-05:00Okay, so now I'm sort of getting what this blog thing is about, and that Sandy is not my only audience, so I'll try to open this up to a whole field of people that I haven't met but who sound like VERY interetsing people (going by your blog responses, Sandy.)
I want to know Joey's tips for revision, since that 's my big reserach interest.
Am I allowed to read all of the class's blogs, or just Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04126425060012647746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5087819.post-1063340678158292162003-09-11T22:56:00.000-05:002003-09-11T23:24:38.170-05:00WOW --- very cool to see Julie's words on my blog. Julie is a superstar teacher, just in case any of you folk in class or elsewhere are reading right now, and she's one of my outside readers. OK, so let's call Julie by her official name, Dr. Jung, cuz she teaches in English at Illinois State University and she's got a book coming out. I like what Julie said about feeling weird posting on my blog,Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00642628390788542991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5087819.post-1063314623900084642003-09-11T16:09:00.000-05:002003-09-11T16:10:23.940-05:00jt said that no one had a creative blog title, so i'm changing mine.Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00642628390788542991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5087819.post-1063302741097553582003-09-11T12:45:00.000-05:002003-09-11T12:54:00.803-05:00Dear Sandy,
I'm so excited because I think I'm "in" your blog and that maybe this will actually work and you will hear my voice! I see a tag on the side that says "post options," and I'm wondering if I should click on that before I try to post, but then I worry that something will go wrong and this message will disappear.
I loved reading about students' confusions re: the blog because I share Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04126425060012647746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5087819.post-1063295125018562422003-09-11T10:45:00.000-05:002003-09-11T10:45:24.983-05:00accckkkk....blogging in new engineering building computer lab, which is supposed to be only for computer science folk...but we get it for today. confusion about blog, posting, addresses. mebbe i can sort this out when i get up to my office. ciao Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00642628390788542991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5087819.post-1063125461126498822003-09-09T11:37:00.000-05:002003-09-09T11:37:41.190-05:00still want to change template colors but haven't had time or energy. ok, so YEAH, we have a computer lab on Thursday, thanks to Dawn's intervention. i'll set up a print copy and web copy of exactly what we need to do. first priority is to make sure everyone's hooked up correctly with blogger. second priority is to work on revision of first paper.
struck this morning by the huge differences in Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00642628390788542991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5087819.post-1062769797979410942003-09-05T08:49:00.000-05:002003-09-05T08:49:58.030-05:00just changed my template. want to get into the html and change colors a bit. will need to do that later. just also updated links to student blogs. dawn and misha both had more than ONE posting, which was way cool. i really enjoy going through and reading the blogs and wish the broken links worked and wish that everyone wrote more. when we get in the lab, i want to talk about a bit of html so Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00642628390788542991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5087819.post-1062709885737685622003-09-04T16:11:00.000-05:002003-09-04T16:31:32.473-05:00OK, I read the student comments on blogging. Getting all social science-y here with hard data: out of 24 responses (40 students are enrolled in this class...wonder where they were today...), 7 have not yet set up blogs. Of those 7, 3 were new to the class and just got blog instructions today. The other 17 students had all either set up a blog or had tried to set up a blog. Some are unsure of Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00642628390788542991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5087819.post-1062708450656601622003-09-04T15:47:00.000-05:002003-09-04T15:47:30.550-05:00no time during office hours to blog after class today ... so i'm home and slurping a large iced coffee to try and get my brain cells working. the blog thing ain't happenin' for the students. my evidence for that is that most students haven't emailed me a blog address. also, i haven't got a good list of prompts or blog assignments fixed yet. so i asked students today to respond to the following: Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00642628390788542991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5087819.post-1062555287709681572003-09-02T21:14:00.000-05:002003-09-02T21:14:47.730-05:00no class today...had to take care of josh. i'm starting to understand that my request for students to email me their blog addresses has been confusing. several students have asked me if they need to email from their blog. so i think the whole blog interface has been a bit perplexing. will see if we can talk about those questions. Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00642628390788542991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5087819.post-1062090965911648852003-08-28T12:16:00.000-05:002003-08-28T12:16:05.900-05:00Rats. I had a lovely new post --- then I decided to check to see if I spelled "deterrent" correctly (which I hadn't -- I used an "a" instead of the final "e") and went to ms word and some prompt asked me if I wanted to save my posting, which of course I did, but the posting didn't get saved. This is not an interesting story. OK, so lemme try to recreate my post.
I'm realizing that I've probably Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00642628390788542991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5087819.post-1061914610024275492003-08-26T11:16:00.000-05:002003-08-26T12:34:12.200-05:00I think if I don't post right after class, I probably won't post at all. At least, right after class seems to be the best time for me to post because everything's fresh. [some time passes] OK, so Langston came in to set up his blog. Then we talked about his project. He's not sure he wants to do something on urban planning. Maybe something on pursuing love. Not sure how that will work. Reminded meSandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00642628390788542991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5087819.post-1061482692919995292003-08-21T11:18:00.000-05:002003-08-21T11:18:12.966-05:00first day of 304 and i'm very excited about the class because there's a great group of folks -- lots of social work students, couple urban planning & political science, couple math/computer science. most seniors, a few juniors. i like working with students who are getting ready to finish up their college experience. i introduced the idea of blogging and asked everyone to get a blogger account, Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00642628390788542991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5087819.post-1061437330521165102003-08-20T22:42:00.000-05:002003-08-20T22:42:10.610-05:00this will be my first foray into blog-pedagogy ... how to use blogging in the writing classroom? i'm depending on my students to help me out here. let's see what happens. Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00642628390788542991noreply@blogger.com0