The Week Before Class Starts

So, it's the week before class starts; I am hurriedly putting the last touches on my syllabi while conducting a series of pre-semester workshops.

This blog was going to be the place where I documented my planning of my new class entitled "Writing in Electronic Environments." The plan was that I would reflect upon and detail every step of my planning process, including links to cool sites I came across and pithy comments on books and articles I found to assign. But not much of that has really happened . . .

I came across a website that has articles about academics blogging. One woman said that she was going to blog about her research and that it just did not happen, so that made me feel a little better. Then another entry said that blogs are really only good when they are uniformly focused and the entries are cohesive -- well, my blog really does not fit that de(pre)scription: I've posted on everything from David Bowie to my son's vacation to musings on the public nature of text and audience. Then again, one of the articles on this sight said that academic blogs should not be all business but should be personal too.

So, with a few days left before class starts, I'm trying to get back to my original intent of blogging about the process of creating a class about electronic writing. Maybe the entries will get jazzier once school starts (or more or less cohesive or more or less personal : )