WAC

WAC FUNCTIONS

"...the primary goal for the use of blog entries in place of traditional papers is to get students to begin to think of a larger audience for their work and, we hope, to take the work more seriously. Rather than being read and graded by a single instructor, the students are acutely aware of the fact that others will be reading their work."

    - Evelyn Stiller and Cathie LeBlanc
Blogging Across the Curriculum
    Out of WAC Newsletter
    Fall 2005

Some student blogs:

http://turing.plymouth.edu/~ndbarron/blog/
http://turing.plymouth.edu/~mcfairbanks/blog/
http://turing.plymouth.edu/~smspears/blog/
http://turing.plymouth.edu/~prfrohock/blog/

Some background blog URLs:

Educational blogging:

http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/erm04/erm0450.asp?bhcp=1

basic definition:(wikipedia)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/weblog

Essay which brings up the issue of media concentration:

http://www.rebeccablood.net/essays/weblog_history.html