1. Briding the Composition Divide: Blog Pedagogy and the Potential for Agnostic Classrooms
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/currents/fall05/fernheimernelson.html
This source could be interesting; I am intrigued with this notion about "agnostic" classrooms. There is mention of Peter Elbow's "In Defense of Private Writing" as well as James Berlin's "Rhetoric Ideology on the Writing Classroom," to name a few. We should probably debate some of Elbow's critiques of "private self" and "private writing." See...there goes that public and private again.
2. The Effect of Peer Feedback for Blogging on College Students' Reflective Learning Processes.
It looks as if the library has the article in The Internet and Higher Education. We can check tomorrow.
3. Shifting Paradigms: Assessment and Technology in the Composition Classroom
More on this one later...but would you consider blogging and other uses of technology a paradigm shift? Is it really that revolutionary? I suppose if you compare a classroom from today with a classroom 50 years ago, it would be a paradigm shift.
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Interesting. In relation to paradigm, this is a tough question. However, I think I ultimately would characterize the use of "high-tech" as a paradigm shift. Let me contextualize. In high school, using the computer to conduct research was virtually non-existent. The only program the 2 computers in the library had was a word processing program. So, when writing a research paper, we were taught to: 1) pick a topic 2) look in the card-catalog 3) get books and read 4) write paper using these sources.
To me, the paradigm shift is that the entire research and writing process is being turned on its head. We teach students that they are in a continual process of moving between research and writing. I would suppose that part of this is the changing nature of research writing, but possibly also because it is much easier for them to access and engage with the research materials since so many are in an online format.
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