initiating the new FWOL blog
so. we've tried html-based guestbook scripts. we've tried high-end subscription community bbs services. matching our community's needs with a simple, responsive, and affordable technology has been a challenge. getting a critical mass of users participating regularly enough to justify and satisfy individual posts and queries has been a challenge-- especially when "we" the site's administrators struggle to check in here regularly, given the pressures of our own full-time academic work, etc.
so here's an attempt from another angle: a blog. we've used blogs elsewhere for other purposes and found this technology to be surprisingly user-friendly and dynamic. therefore we're giving it a whirl for the purposes of fieldworking online. we've constructed this as a "team" blog--the team being any and all participants interested in working with and sharing FieldWorking concepts and pedagogical practices-- please count yourself welcome as a member of that team, and send sarah an email requesting an official subscription invitation. it's pretty straight-forward, but if you hit a snag, sarah can try to help you unravel that, too.
posted by sat @ 5:25 PM
5 Comments:
Dear Sarah,
I came across Fieldworking about two weeks ago and I'm thrilled. I teach English at Miami Dade College and deal with issues of race, culture, and the environment in my writing classes. Approaching comp classes from an ethnographic perspective makes sense. I will be reworking my 1102 syllabus so that I can incorporate your text. I'll let you know how things go as I try it out. Here's my faculty page if you would like to contact me: http://faculty.mdc.edu/cgonzal3/.
My suggestion is to install a cryptogram on your blog so you don't get the spam you are getting a bit of here.
Katy Olson
RFYP
Hi my name is Dana and i am researching a site where people go and sing and practice in like a music hall off campus. I wonder if anybody has one of them on thier campus
I am sorry to say, that I was very dissapointed in this program! it had to much information in how to actually use it and it was very boring, and didn't live up to the name! it to me was not virtual at all!!! I would have expected to see little people running around and the background moving! also It was not active or auditory and that would have been way more effective! I really hope that you put this into concideration when you read this! thanks for your time hope all goes well!
I made my way from the preface Bonnie Sunstein wrote for "Teacher Narrative as Critical Inquiry" to this blog. I think of myself as a teacher and fiction writer but after a recent transition from high school to college teaching, I'm trying to form professional relationships, especially in the area of narratives. I have an assignment I use called the Scholarly Perosnal Narrative (the name was not my idea) and am interested in the ways others might try to combine narrative with scholarly research. It dawned on me--I can be a little slow--that the idea for the writing I have my students do comes from the reading and writing I've done in the genre (is it?) of teacher stories.
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