Week Three:
This week will discuss how to blog and continue our examination on the resourceful ambiguities of language.
- Monday: No class
- Wednesday:
- Discussion: Anatomy of a blog post
- Some basic, introductory, fundamental, requisite, concepts: ethos, pathos, and logos
- Show Link and tell
- Respect your source and audience: <blockquote> and <embed>
- Summarize and contextualize
- Aristotle 2.000: claim and evidence
- Point & counterpoint
- Managable <p>'s
- Homework:
- Read (for Thursday): Coursepack, Burke, "Definition of Man"
- Start reading and blogging online. Remember to tag posts and to tag sites visited to del.icio.us
- Discussion: Anatomy of a blog post
- Thursday:
- Discuss: Lunz
- Discuss: Kenneth Burke and Conversations in the Parlor
- Homework:
- Read: Coursepack, Tim O'Reilly, "What is Web2.0?"; Steven Johnson, "Emerging Technology"; Joel Spolsky, "Learning from Dave Winer"; Michael Lopp, The necessity of comments
- Keep on bloggin'
- Conferences:
- Format: 20 minutes, teams of 4
- Goal: Examine blog posts, discuss missions statements,
