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Class, Tues, 1/31

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Micromessages

  • Smith Magazine: Write a six word memoir.
  • Using Microstyle: In groups of three, read and discuss your r2s. Choose one example that the three of you agree tweaks, extends, or criticizes Johnson’s advice in a particularly interesting way and be ready to talk about it with the whole class.

Small Stuff

  • Check and correct name, title, and URL of your blog on class list
  • Establish a Creative Commons license for your site

Blogging Groups

  • Readability/Legibility: Can you read the text of the blog easily?
  • Navigation: Can you find everything readily? (E.g., title, pages, posts, archive, contact, etc.) Does anything seem missing?
  • First glance: Glace at the first post. Does it make you want to read on?

To Do

  1. Continue work on your blog; follow the other bloggers in your group.
  2. Finish Microstyle; post r3 by 9:00 am, Tues, 2/07. (You should try  to submit your micromessage well before that.)

Moment of Zen

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Blogging groups

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I’d like you to work as part of a blogging group for the next several weeks of this course.

A blogging group is a small group of writers who agree to follow one another’s work, comment when they are moved to do so, and meet regularly to talk about what they are doing. The aim of a blogging group is to help you keep writing by offering you not only support, advice, and ideas for new posts, but a sense that there are people out there who are actually reading your blog and who expect you to regularly update it.

Your tasks as a member of your blogging group are to:

  1. Subscribe to or follow the blogs of the other writers in your group;
  2. Check in on each blog once or twice a week; comment on posts that interests you;
  3. Be ready to talk briefly about what you’ve been reading in class. (We’ll set aside about 30-45 minutes each week for the groups to meet.)
  4. Try to get people outside of this course reading and commenting on the blogs in your group.

I’ve set up the three groups below in a semi-random fashion. If after the first week or two, you feel that you really can’t work productively as part of a particular group, let me know and we’ll see if we can’t make some changes. But I hope that this won’t need to be the case.

Good luck! Have fun!

Group One

  • Allison Damon
  • Shawn Hoffman
  • Nicole Page
  • Ashely Ruba
  • Jabari Sellars
  • Chinny Sharma

Group Two

  • Lauren Duin
  • Sophie Green
  • Mollie Mackler
  • Parker Miles
  • Kristin Oakley
  • Helen Ren

Group Three

  • Jonathan Ho
  • Lindsay Michalski
  • Liz Portnoy
  • Keturah Reed
  • Tori Scott
  • Emily Shiau