Bill Wolff's Composing Spaces

I am searching for College of Communication seniors with outstanding skills in the following areas: blogging (preferably Wordpress) and Twittering (and, perhaps, other social networking) web design documentary film production journalism (specifically, online journalism and press releases) pub layout and design Photoshop Students with these skills will be brought together to form a kind of social media team (name I’m [...]

This semester in Writing for Electronic Communities I would like to try a collaborative writing assignment that uses a wiki or GoogleDocs. I’ve never done a collaborative writing assignment before. The assignment would have the following goals: introduce students to wikis and/or Google Docs as a collaborative writing space as distinguished from blogging and micro-blogging challenge students’ [...]

Building on their prior release, which they called Coltrane, Wordpress 2.8 is named Baker after Jazz legend Chat Baker. I really enjoy how they are equating blogging and jazz. See video for the many cool updates.

Ryancordell asked me to say a few words about teaching tagging to my students and I am very happy to do so. I have been trying to figure out how to teach tagging to my graduate and undergraduate students since I began using Diigo several years ago. Actually, after I finished presenting a paper at the [...]