Thursday, September 24, 2015

What Makes Good Blogs Good?

http://2015.bloggi.es/This week, COMM 324 students will investigate what makes a good blog "good." In an emerging medium, it is often the case that we recognize what is "good" BEFORE we've articulated the rules and grammar and taxonomies whereby we know WHY it is good. And so, good examples can be used as exemplars to study so we might derive our rules and grammars for a new medium.

http://techland.time.com/2013/08/05/the-25-best-bloggers-2013-edition/slide/all/
(We will read selections from James Paul Gee's New Digital Media and Learning as an Emerging Area and “Worked Examples” as One Way Forward in the coming weeks, but first, we will practice this approach of "reverse-engineering" a "good" example to discover what makes it good.) And, so...

Students will select (and explore thoughtfully) 2 or 3 blogs from the 2015 Bloggie Winners - as well as 2 or 3 blogs from TIME magazine's Best Bloggers of 2013 list. After reading and interacting with the blogs, students will enter in their blog entries the name of the blogs explored (with links) - and a descriptive list of elements and features that account for each blog being named as "best" or award-winning."

We will compare our findings in our class discussion, and propose heuristics and grammars from our findings!

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