This article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, “Weird is Good” by Jon Colman, may not seem about technology, but it gets there at the end–you’ll notice the payoff when you get to the sentence: “My classroom tour of Civil War facial hair represents my feeble attempt to bring punk to PowerPoint.” Enjoy!
Setting the tone in the blog vs. the classroom
As I consider using blogs in my own classroom, I wonder how blogging will change students' preceptions of my role. Sure, I'm in control of my tone in the blog, but I wonder how to control that tone–will I elivate my speech? As you can tell, prefer to use an informal tone in the classroom: silly voices and gestures. Yet in e-mails to my students, I tend to raise my prose. I wonder if they would notice the difference. Either way, my goal is often to make the classroom more approachable while making writing more thoughtful and careful. Any thoughts?
