grrr

Okay.

I was deeply into writing my second post when I lost all the information.
That's what I hate about technology - it is soo time consuming to learn what to do and what not to do.

I had inserted a quote from the article and then I tried to cut-and-paste the citation information from the article site. When I tried to return to my in-process blog entry, it was gone.

Trying again. Here's the citation:

Blogging in the academy

1. Shane Nackerud¹,
2. Kurtis Scaletta²

Article first published online: 16 DEC 2008

DOI: 10.1002/ss.296

Copyright © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc., A Wiley Company

Here's the quote I wish to comment on:

The ease of blogs make them attractive tools to some instructors for posting

announcements, facilitating discussions, or linking to class resources

(Downes, 2004; Oravec, 2003); that is, they are used as teacher-driven

administrative tools. Other instructors may require students to post to their

own or a shared blog, with required (or recommended) structure and content

for entries and grading rubric (Krause, 2005). Such assignments seem

to be in conflict with the nature of blogs as most students understand

them—that is, as personal and experimental writing spaces. Moreover, the

Scaletta (2006) survey suggests that the real benefits of blogging are gained

slowly, over several years, as students find their voice and become more

comfortable with public writing.

I love the idea of students "finding their voice" and "becoming more comfortable with public writing." The very interesting thing for me will be, wil becoming more comfortable with public writing in the furute look like this? where students are writing informally, fast, for their friends, without a great deal of ocncern for old fashioned things like spelling punctiatuion grammar etc? you can read what i have written here withiut it being perfect right? excpet for not capitalising my is i am not trying to worit ebadly here - this is how ai really type. if this is my jounal i cna wirte the way i woan tto right? and since we know that language is a living thing htat changes with time, maybe writing in the future iwll look like this. Properly worded and punctuated and spelled writing will be referred to as 'Written in the formal style' or 'Old English'!!

Here is a quote from a syllabus that is currently in use at UNBSJ (I don't have the professor's permisssion to 'publish' it here, so I won't say who wrote this.) Here it is:

E-mails. When sending me an e-mail, be sure to include (course number) in the message line or I may not open your message (due to the large amount of unsolicited mesages that I receive). Use standard letter style, punctuation and capitalization in your e-mails. If I have to decode it, I won't read it.

I know I am tired of the informal e-mails I get from students. They seem to me (and I know this is age-culture) to be rude. Here is a real example:

>

> -----Original Message-----

> From: xxxxx@unb.ca [mailto:xxxxx@unb.ca]

> Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 11:46 AM

> To: Kris Trotter

> Subject:

>

> i am making sure by what time was my metting with you

> >

>

Quoting Kris Trotter <ktrotter@unbsj.ca>:

> Do you have a name? That would help me.

For the sake of time I will blog-off now, but more later!  K