Test: Testing

The Internet is arguably the most dynamic of medium of our time, woven into our daily routines and a means by which more and more parts of our personal, professional, and academic lives are enacted. Because of its potency, in this course you will probe and perform in a prominent online realm, the blogosphere, and create and maintain a weblog (blog), or regularly updated webpagehypertextual and multimodal entries. The most appealing blogs are platforms where intelligent, compelling, and innovative work is done, and at the high end bloggers are accomplished Web surfers, researchers, and communicators. Skilled bloggers use the Web to connect and interact, with potential benefits that include the democratization of data and opinion, and impacts that may alter and disrupt content production and consumption.

The three general motives of bloggers are information sharing, reputation building, and personal expression. With these motives and their hybrids, blogs typically cover a person’s life, and here are often more casual and self-referential, or concentrate on a topical area, where they tend to be more polished and externally oriented. Your blog falls into the latter category, and will manifest as a customized and learner-centered venue where you write on phenomena (issues, events, persons, et cetera), which you select, in your academic discipline and/or future profession that are current (just happened, are happening, will soon happen), interesting, important, and not obvious or already known. Blog entries will analyze, interpret, evaluate, and argue, as you become familiar with and establish a presence in the discourses of your field.

The Internet is arguably the most dynamic medium of our time, woven into our daily routines and a means by which more and more parts of our personal, professional, and academic lives are enacted. Because of its potency, in this course you will probe and perform in a prominent online realm, the blogosphere, and create and maintain a weblog (blog), or regularly updated webpage of hypertextual and multimodal entries. The most appealing blogs are platforms where intelligent, compelling, and innovative work is done, and at the high end bloggers are accomplished Web surfers, researchers, and communicators. Skilled bloggers use the Web to connect and interact, with potential benefits that include the democratization of data and opinion, and impacts that may alter and disrupt content production and consumption.

The three general motives of bloggers are information sharing, reputation building, and personal expression. With these motives and their hybrids, blogs typically cover a person’s life, and here are often more casual and self-referential, or concentrate on a topical area, where they tend to be more polished and externally oriented. Your blog falls into the latter category, and will manifest as a customized and learner-centered venue where you write on phenomena (issues, events, persons, et cetera), which you select, in your academic discipline and/or future profession that are current (just happened, are happening, will soon happen), interesting, important, and not obvious or already known. Blog entries will analyze, interpret, evaluate, and argue, as you become familiar with and establish a presence in the discourses of your field.