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Community Through Blogging" The premise of Creating Community Through Blogging is that blogging creates practices and texts that can produce multiple connections within the university and between the university and the wider community. Considering the weblog as a medium with its own techniques, audiences and methods that enable conversations across disciplines, the group will explore how blogs challenge conventional paradigms of research, how blogging relates to pedagogical practices, and how blogging develops sites for public humanities. The project known as Creating Community Through Blogging was created in late 2005by graduate students Honni van Rijswijk (English) and Matthew James Vechinski (English and Textual Studies). Through the generous support of the Simpson Center for the Humanities, the project is moving forward as a cross-disciplinary research cluster for the 2006-2007 academic year. This roundtable is the first reading group meeting. How can blogging be used effectively in the classroom? We will discuss how to integrate blogs into the design of courses as a means of developing the classroom community as well as explore ways we might use blogs to connect the classroom with communities outside the university. Further, we will look at pedagogical and practical issues to consider before using blogs in the classroom for the first time. This roundtable, cosponsored by the graduate research cluster called Creating Community Through Blogging will include instructors who have used blogs in their courses and their former students. Prior to the roundtable, participants are asked to contribute to the
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