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« We Have Brains Collaboration Topic: Feminist Men. | Main | It's taken me over three years... »
Day Five of the Blogging Class
June 1, 2004
I'm embarking on the second half of the blogging class today. I'm already trying to figure out how to flesh things out for the next class. I feel as though things have been a bit dry, with very little discussion and a lot of me demonstrating how to do things. I like the fact that I leave a good portion of the class open for them to explore what blogs are and how they can be used, but I'd like to bring them in more.
At the same time, I feel as though I've been successful in gaining the interest of the clients who are participating. It's a small class, but it appears that over half of them are interested in maintaining a blog after class is over. Two of them will be focusing on their family histories and culture. This is a tremendous victory for me, because it's one of my main reasons for offering the class in the first place. Selfishly, because I'm terminally curious about different cultures as told from a level of personal experience...and overall because I think that this kind of thing is what makes blogging so powerful - the ability to provide an outlet to people from all cultures who may or may not be represented in the mainstream media. I'm really excited to read more from these men, and I'm thrilled that I might have encouraged even the slightest amount of diversity of voices on the web.
Two of my other clients will be blogging about their hobbies, which are interesting hobbies that don't have a lot of representation on the web, as well...as far as I know. And one of my clients is an artist/activist who I think, once she gets her 'net legs, will have a lot of cool and interesting stuff to say, and I'm looking forward to helping her get there. And another client appears to just want to blog about his life, which is certainly no less interesting or important than any of the others.
Of the remaining 3, one is a network/security guy who wants to use blogs for the purpose of passing on information, another is a zany aging intellectual, and the other is a woman who is a regular of ours, and appears to be just there to form ideas and learn new ways to utilize her computer skills.
It's been a good class so far. I love the mix, and everyone seems to be enjoying the topic.
So, today...ethics, linking, copyright, google. If anyone has any ideas or suggestions - please feel free to let me know. Thanks!
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Going to have to forgive me, I'm just jumping into the conversation here...
But where do you teach classes for this stuff at? Do you have course outlines and such that potentials could look at? I'm curious now =)