Your course blog is a space to write to the class (and potentially others) about course readings, service learning experiences, questions, responses to classmates' blogs, interesting websites, ideas and reflections related to 282, and so on. It may be useful to think of it as informal practice for the critical framing paper you'll be writing for your final project. I will provide weekly suggestions for your writing, but I encourage you to explore your own questions and concerns as well.
Please write a conclusion to your course blog.
This week I'd like you to write a blog entry that gets you started writing about something you plan to discuss in your final paper. So long as it is relevant to class and useful to your final paper, the choice of topic is up to you.
This week I'd like you to reflect on your service learning experience and its relation to your thinking about issues of audience in web design. What have you learned through the human-human interactions involved in your service learning experience that help you to think about how to be most effective in designing human-computer-human interactions with readers of your final project website?
Drawing on Nothstine's discussion of persuasion, as well as Askehave and Nielsen's analysis of digital genres, I'd like you to discuss what issues of persuasion are particularly important to, or even unique to, writing for the Web. Specific examples drawing on your web genre analysis and/or related to your final projects would certainly be welcome.
Drawing on Porter's overview of concepts related to audience, I'd like you to discuss what considerations of audience are important to, or even unique to, writing for the Web.
For your second blog entry I'd just like you to write a bit about your service learning organization and the orientation that you went to.
Your first blog entry will have dual purposes. I'd like you to respond to the weekend's reading(s) on the nature of hypertext, but before you do so, it will be helpful to give some thought to the genre you'll be writing in. For this reason, I'm also asking you to do an informal analysis of the genre of the blog:
Then go ahead and give us your response to Bolter (and optionally Grigar and Barber).