Note as of Nov 2006 This reading list may be moving to del.icio.us in December, 2006 or January, 2007.
[Rhetorics of the Web: Hyperreading and Critical Literacy], Nicholas C. Burbules. Published in Page to Screen: Taking Literacy Into the Electronic Era, Ilana Snyder, ed. (New South Wales: Allen and Unwin, 1997.
must read [Rhetorics of the Web: Implications for Teachers of Literacy,] Doug Brent. Start with the index, or start with [A Way In].
Hocks, Mary. "Understanding Visual Rhetoric in Digital Writing Environments," CCC 54.4, June 2003. 629 - 656. (pdf)
Vielstimmig, Myka. "Petals on a Wet Black Bough: Textuality, Collaboration, and the New Essay." Hawisher and Selfe, Passions.
Vielstimmig, Myka. [Not (Necessarily) a Cosmic Convergence:Rhetoric, Poetics, Performance, and the Web] A sibling hypertext essay / performance to "Petals." Both works by Vielstimmig consider what happens to academic / scholarly writing when it's moved to hypertext and the web and make a case for web-based composition projects combining visual and textual elements.
Hesse, Douglas. "Saving a Place for Essayistic Literacy." Hawisher and Selfe, Passions.
Sosnoski, James. "Hyper-readers and their Reading Engines." Hawisher and Selfe, Passions.
[articles and sites on searching the web, assessing sources, teaching these practices in writing courses.]
[Lore] "a journal for adjunct and graduate student teachers of writing published three times a year and edited by TAs, adjuncts, and assistant professors."
Rubin, Lois. "'I Just Think Maybe You Could...': Peer Critiquing through Online Conversations," TETYC, May 2002. 382 - 392. (pdf)
Rouzie, Albert. "Conversation and Carrying-on: Play, Conflict, and Serio-Ludic Discourse in Synchronous Computer Conferencing," CCC 35, 3, Dec 2001, 251 - 299. (pdf)
[The written world: On the theory and practice of computer conferencing], Andrew Feenberg.
[Mindweave: Communication, Computers, and Distance Education], Mason and Kaye, eds. 1989. Substantive and classic. A number of articles on the nature and dynamics of CMC.
[Supporting Interaction Outside of Class: Anchored Discussions vs. Discussion Boards], Brush, et al. (pdf) Small comparative study of two discussion boards, one using anchored dicussion, the other a stock discussion board. The article shows a) how the design of the software influences literacy (kinds of messages), b) how online discussions can compete with class discussions, c) how online commenting and discussions can overload participants.
[Managing Online Discussions,] Morgan. This web presents groundings and practices to help faculty guide and manage student online discussions.
[Computer Conferencing in Classroom Settings: Discussion, Dialogue, and Debate], Morgan, Chap 1 of Student Rhetorical Interaction in an E-Mail Conference Addresses the distinction between monological and dialogical orientation.
[Student Rhetorical Practices in Computer-Mediated Exchange], Morgan. Chap 4 of Student Rhetorical Interaction in an E-Mail Conference
[IntoTheBlogosphere]: A collection of articles on rhetoric and the culture of weblogs.
[Review of Into the Blogosphere], Lanette Cadle.
[Remediation, Genre, and Motivation: Key Concepts for Teaching with Weblogs], Kevin Brooks, Cindy Nichols, and Sybil Priebe, North Dakota State University.
[Blogging Thoughts: Personal Publication as an Online Research Tool], Torill Mortensen and Jill Walker. pdf download. For upper-division writing.
[Personal knowledge publishing and its uses in research]. Sebastien Paquet. A consideration of weblogs as research. [Part 2] annotates a number of research/personal knowledge blogs. See also [Seb's Open Research] for more.
[The Year of the Blog: Weblogs in the Writing Classroom], Barclay Barrios, Writing Program, Rutgers University, New Brunswick. Published in [Computers and Composition Online]
[Writing with Web Logs], Kristen Kennedy. An overview article with some resources. "What makes Web logs unique is their emphasis on publication and their signature as a dynamic genre of Web writing." And Kennedy mentions, "The National Writing Project recently purchased server space to see how the medium facilitates dialogue and sharing of best practices among teachers who teach in writing-intensive classrooms."
[Moving to the Public: Weblogs in the Writing Classroom], Charles Lowe and Terra Williams. The social, public aspect of the weblog makes it a pedagogically valuable writing space. "in our classes, students use their blogs for a wide range of writing, much like a combination of a commonplace book and a diary put together."
[Remediation, Genre, and Motivation: Key Concepts for Teaching with Weblogs], Kevin Brooks, Cindy Nichols, and Sybil Priebe. Empirical study of student familiarity and use of weblogs leading to some observations on how students use different genres (journal, notebook, filter) and how we might incorporate these in teaching writing. Some solid ground to build on.
[Log Frenzy,] by Paul Ford. or "Ideas for Link-focused Weblogs." "How could the Weblog "form" be expanded in regards to narrative, not technology, to become exciting and valuable over time?" Addresses the question by compiling a long list of ideas for weblog entries, and kinds of blogs. Exercises for blogging.
[Dr. B's Blog], Samantha Blackmon, Purdue
Audio Intro to Wiki via Brian Lamb and [WikiRadio]: No reading! It's what Flash is for.
[Blogs and Wikis: Environments for On-line Collaboration], Bob Godwin-Jones. Overview of the use of same in language learning courses. Links to examles, resources. About wikis, Godwin-Jones observes, "Blogs can be highly personal, wikis are intensely collaborative. They feature a loosely structured set of pages, linked in multiple ways to each other and to Internet resources and an open-editing system in which anyone can edit any page. [... ] Such a system only works with users serious about collaborating and willing to follow the group conventions and practices."
[Introduction to the Wiki], Chris Lott, U of Alaska, Fairbanks. Making the case for using wikis in DE. Solid list of resources.
[Matt Barton's Rhetorical Classroom Wiki] Statements, with links to courses and FY writing done using wikis.
[Wikis in the Classroom]. An index and entry point to some materials on same. Links to articles on using anchored discussion vs discussion boards, such as [Supporting Interaction Outside of Class.]]
[Notes towards a Rhetoric of Wikis], Morgan, CCCC April 2004. Discusses social situation, process, and topological writing.
[UBC Wiki]. Charles Lamb et al.
Three CoWeb? articles on wikis These are pdfs. They are also available in html.
[Beyond Adoption to Invention: Teacher-Created Collaborative Activities in Higher Education], pdf
[A Catalog of CoWeb Uses], pdf
[When Collaboration Doesn't Work], pdf
[need an article or two on with pedagogical assumptions in online instructional design]
[Teaching Writing in the Space of Blackboard] Evan Davis and Sarah Hardy.
[Kevin Brooks], NDSU.
[FYW course running on Drupal], Bradley Bleck.
[Getting Started: Analytical Writing in the Humanities], U Mich. A small tutorial site. Needs high-speed access for some video.
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[Stylus entry] at wikipedia
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