Revised Final Project

http://learningathens.blogspot.com/

Project Draft

Here's a link to my Athens place blog-in-progress:

http://learningathens.blogspot.com/

Storyboard

I formatted this more or less like an outline, with each basic section planned as an individual blog entry:

Storyboard

Introduction Entry

Why blogs?

              -Intersections of public and private writing

              -Exploring audience, genre, and civic participation

              -Community building

Sources:

•               Blogging as Social Action: A Genre Analysis of the Weblog
•               Educational Blogging
•               Learning to Write Publicly: Promises and Pitfalls of Using Weblogs in the Classroom
•               The Year of the Blog
•               Writing and Citizenship: Using Blogs to Teach First-Year Composition

Why place?

               -Place as rhetoric

               -Place and identity

               -Place and citizenship

Sources:

• Blogging Places: Locating Pedagogy in the Whereness of Weblogs
• Rural Voices: Place Conscious Education and the Teaching of Writing
• The Locations of Composition

Blog 1: Prework Entry

• Category PreWriting
• Tentative Topic
• Research Plan
• Entry Outline
• Modal Planning/Considerations

Blog 1: Local History Entry

Topic: Naming Athens and Ohio University

Blog 2 Prework Entry

• Category PreWriting
• Tentative Topic
• Research Plan
• Entry Outline
• Modal Planning/Considerations

Blog 2: Local Culture/Language Entry

Topic: Scotch-Irish Influences on Local Dialect

Blog 3: Prework Entry

• Category PreWriting
• Tentative Topic
• Research Plan
• Entry Outline
• Modal Considerations

Blog 3: Local Issues Entry

Topic: Ohio University Beyond Coal

Blog 4: Final Reflections Entry