tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23454041926117350632011-04-21T19:31:45.199-07:00D0C70RWH0http://www.blogger.com/profile/01619861882303896581noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2345404192611735063.post-75370851001189521992008-11-10T10:35:00.000-08:002008-11-10T10:50:35.723-08:00As I write, I'm at OHS, sitting in a workshop on using blogs and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">wikis</span> in the classroom. We're seeing lots of resources out there about where and how to create them, some of which are already tailored for educational use (read: with ways of locking out everyone but your students, so as not to create a sense of impropriety, I suppose).<br /><br />A thought that occurred to me while digging around those links (<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Moodle</span> is a pretty cool resource, if we'd ever really have time to create anything for it, but that's a post for another time. The literary term of the day is "irony," kids...) is how many people equate "online writing" with "complete abandonment of the conventions of written English."<br /><br />If I were to devise some kind of introductory lesson for my high school students that utilized blogs or <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">wikis</span>, it would most likely focus on how horribly people come across when they misuse "your" for "you're"...<br /><br />Does that make me some kind of elitist? I don't care so much when people use commonly accepted I.M./text-slang, b/c every1 knows what u mean when u do that, but there's a HUGE difference (in my mind, anyway) between consciously using an abbreviation, and just being a piss-poor, careless writer...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2345404192611735063-7537085100118952199?l=d0c70rwh0.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>D0C70RWH0http://www.blogger.com/profile/01619861882303896581noreply@blogger.com0