Exploring+Blogs-+21st+Century+Texts

=Blogs, authentic publication, and college readiness= The videos below are excerpted from [|Jim Groom's address at Kansas State University]. Jim Groom, a computer science teacher at the University of Mary Washington, explains how blogs work at Mary Washington and the startling results they have had publishing for the real world. He has encouraged students and faculty to publish any and all of their work online. The results suggest the amazing potential for student work in virtual spaces.

[|Here's the first Tubechop]

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[|Here's the second Tubechop]

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Explore UMW blogs: [|University of Mary Washington Blogs]

Jim Groom, the speaker in the videos above, teaches a digital storytelling course at UMW called [|DS106]. The course meets on campus like a traditional course, but it is also open to the world on the UMW blogs. Participants from around the world watch his course and opt to participate in the assignments, sharing their work with the UMW students and the world. Learn and create with Groom's students by participating in [|The Daily Create].

=Teen bloggers in the real world: two "outlier" examples of real-world publishing on blogs=

=Tavi Gevinson= //By now, most people in the fashion industry recognize Tavi Gevinson, a fourteen-year-old girl from the suburbs of Chicago, who has been writing a fashion blog, Style Rookie, since she was eleven. It is an enthusiastic chronicle of her thoughts on fashion, ranging from reviews of runway shows (on Marc Jacobs’s floral prints: “Nostalgia creeps up on you and puts you in a haze, and this collection did the same thing”) to reflections provoked by her bat mitzvah (“the Nazirites wore just enough to keep them warm”). There are also more than a hundred photographs of Tavi modelling outfits, most of them taken with a camera set on a tripod in her back yard.// [|The New Yorker's feature on Tavi Gevinson and her blog, The Style Rookie] Gevinson's fashion blog exploded in popularity shortly after she began blogging about fashion at the age of 11. Now she's 15 and is the editor-in-chief an online magazine, [|rookiemag.com]

Explore Tavi Gevinson's blog:[|The Style Rookie]

=Taylor-Ruth Baldwin= //“It was a way of venting my frustrations,” Baldwin says. “I didn’t think much would come of it.” But she struck a nerve, and in a few months she had 15,000 followers. Her posts often get thousands of notes—reblogs, likes, and replies. One got more than 35,000, which is on par with posts by mainstream news orgs.//  [|Taylor-Ruth Baldwin's blog was recently featured in Wired Magazine.]

Explore Baldwin's Hanging Rock Comics (at your own risk. She includes mature language in her blog regularly.): []     

 [|The Public Library of Science Blogs]  The blogosphere isn't just teen interest and teen angst, of course. Publishing in public spaces to share your work with the world is something academics have always worked toward. Check out these blogs about the latest in science research.    <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">New to blogs? Watch [|this short introductory video from Common Craft.]