Collaboration Led/Leads to "Process-Blogging"

So I was thinking how we created the name "process-blogging." Or should I say socially constructed the name "process-blogging." With all due respect to Loftus, my memory is as follows: We were in Dr. Pagnucci's class, and we were excited that he had approved this project. Of course, before I could turn around, you already had blogger up on a computer screen. With you at the keyboard, we brainstormed for a name to call our new blog. We experimented with a few possible names that had already been taken by other bloggers. But we were both on the same page about combining "process" with "blogging." And I remember that we sort of arrived at process-blogging at the same time. When you typed it into blogger and the name was accepted, we had our term.

If not a figment of my imagination (damn you Loftus), this story is great for two reasons:

1. We collaborated to create a name that we had never thought of or heard about before that afternoon in class. Our social interaction allowed us to construct knowledge and meaning. And so it was fitting that we had arrived at a name for our blog in this manner because our project is based on collaboratiion and the social construction of knowledge as applied to the writing process.

2. If not for the blog, we probably would have never created a name in that way. Why? If we didn't need to name the blog, we likely would have written about this topic without every really giving it a name. I'm sure in time we would have decided upon something. But the technology forced us to consider creating a term before we had even written about the topic. We had to name the blog to commence in the actual blogging and research. And I would argue that by thinking critically about naming the blog, we had to reflect about our topic area and goals for research. To enhance this reflection, we had to discuss the project and its implications. This discussion was aided by the use of a computer where you could type out different names to see if they had already been taken. And when the software informed us that process-blogging was available, a new term was born. (Perhaps if "bloggingasaprocess" was still available at blogger, our term would have been different. So the technology limited our selections, but it also helped focus our attentions on what we were truly attempting to study: process-blogging--a term more fitting with what we have experienced over the last few weeks).