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ENGL 3177/5177

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Course begins again in spring 2010.

Features spring 2010: Conversation and community with WordPress, wikis, and Flickr; micro-blogging with Twitter, mini-blogging with Tumblr.

For those who aren’t familiar with Tumblr, it is the major player in the “mini-blog” or “tumblelog” market right now, competing with Posterous. Mini-blogging is a step between “micro-blogging” (ie. Twitter, FriendFeed) and traditional blogging (ie WordPress, Blogspot, this site, etc.). Mini-blogging is typically short, frequent, mixed-media posts with little or no narrative. The idea is to quickly share some form of media in a way that’s more than a Twitter post but not quite a full blog post. justanotherihoneblog[

If you're interested in the class, have a look at the CourseStatement2009 (under revision for 2010) and The Daybook.

Parallel Course

ENGL 3179/5179: Elements of Electronic Rhetoric investigates the rhetorical significance behind weblogs, wikis, microblogging, and Flickr through a series of student-designed projects. The principles behind the practice. Spring, 2010. !0:00 T and R.

Useful pages: FormattingRulesPart1, FormattingRulesPart2, WikkaDocumentation, OrphanedPages, WantedPages, TextSearch

Fishbowl. Want in? Contact mmorgan at bemidjistate dot edu

Questions Welcome

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(Draft) topics for Spring 2010

Web 2.0 and social software
Blogging, microblogging, content sharing with Flickr: Tumblr, Twitter, Brightkite.
New relations between writer and audience, a new (or not so new?) sense of authenticity, exposition and concision, reflection and immediacy, static and mobile.
Wiki projects
- 100 pages / 100 writers
- interview / poll / discuss / link
http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/07/13/15-productive-uses-for-a-wiki/
http://mashable.com/2008/12/31/wiki-resources/

Ongoing

- WikiWritingHandbook. A text in 100 pages

A growing list of pages

PagePatterns - develop each and add to the list
WikiRoles
UsesOfWikis
...
Also see delicious tag wikis.

TopicsForDiscussion

Wanna talk about something on this wiki? Make a list.

Getting Started

Login (I'll give participants login instructions, or email me), then double-click on any page, or click on the "Edit page" link at the bottom to get started.

FormattingRulesPart1 (was GettingStarted) has basic editing and formatting instructions. SandBox is a space to practice editing. Our StyleGuide lists wiki writing conventions. And CollaborationConventions is a developing set of conventions for working collaboratively on this wiki. But we also encourage you to CollaborateRadically. Follow WikiLove.

Wiki:GoodWikiCitizen - on WikiWikiWeb lists suggestions for respect.
Wiki:FixYourWiki is another starting point for the collaborative-minded

When you're comfortable, jump in.

Where's the old stuff?

This site is running on version n/a (see WikkaReleaseNotes). Visit the WikkaWiki website.