Posted in tools on Jul 30th, 2008 10 Comments »
I must admit, I was initially a bit befuddled by the blog-o-mania that has hit society with the sudden, formidable force of a tsunami. Why, I thought, would anyone want to journal publicly? And why, I mused, would anyone want to read the online musings of random strangers? The [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 26th, 2008 1 Comment »
The university commencement address is a special genre. At its best, it offers a window into a great mind that may not often be open to the masses, bestowing elusive keys to the success of an accomplished individual, highlighting both the uniqueness and the universality of that person’s story. The Fringe Benefits of Failure, [...]
Posted in tools on Jun 18th, 2008 No Comments »
Threaded discussions are where it all began. Back in the early days of the Internet (when it still had a capital “I”), Usenet newsgroups sparked great excitement about talking to other people (often previously unknown) in writing without constraints of time or place. Thanks to technical advances that have made web-based authorship as [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 8th, 2008 No Comments »
Earlier this year, blogger Andy Carvin issued a provocation: “Web 2.0 and Education, Hot or Not?” He went on to discuss reactions within the education community to Andrew Keen’s book The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing our Culture, including a blog started by Ann Collier called Why we like Web [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 2nd, 2008 No Comments »
When I use the term “authorship,” I am referring to the practice of writing or otherwise creating an original text in any medium. For example, one might author a story, an essay, a book, a message, a diagram, a video, a multimedia presentation, a blog, a podcast, etc.
I believe that authorship is an important [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 29th, 2008 No Comments »
In collaboration with the College Board’s National Commission on Writing, the Pew Internet & American Life Project has just published Writing, Technology and Teens, a research report on perceptions of teens and their parents about the relationship between their frequent informal writing through digital communication media and formal writing considered to be important for success [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 6th, 2008 No Comments »
Web 2.0 (otherwise known as the Read/Write Web) has ignited a revolution in authorship. A rapidly expanding variety of freely available web-based tools support authorship in new and transformative ways, giving rise to what I am calling Authorship 2.0. While new tools are constantly emerging, and existing tools and categories are in a constant [...]
