In This Week's Assignment: Why I Love to Blog, KCF breaks conventional blogging with a wonderfully wordy post, where she discusses a blog she created:
I created La Kitchen Chicana July 1, 2009 (I just celebrated my one year anniversary and I didn’t even know it) to speak against the notion of rich, white, housewives as the only voices interested or uncritical accounts of cooking, food, and capitalist desires. Instead, my blog (LKC) purposefully blends storytelling with recipes and challenges the reader to think about the politics of food consumption and cultural appropriation while also carving out a niche for my own fluid identities of a femme, lesbian, Chicana with food histories from the Southwest (NM where I grew up) as well as the Midwest (KS where I was born and where my entire extended families reside, and MN where I have lived for the last 6 years).In ways to use blogs, SLP lists ways that course blogs are used by professors and students, as well as ways that she uses her own blogs. Some of my favorite include:
(I have never used bullet points in a block quote. I hope it is obvious that these are her words, not mine!)
- Mini-lectures on topics and issues
- Vlogs (video blogs) by students
- modeled effective ways and provided tips for critically engaging with readings/the course
- media examples, artists, ideas that were relevant to class and needed a feminist/queer/intersectional analysis
- Disrupt the walls of the ivory tower by opening up the conversations to communities beyond our classrooms
On her trouble blog, SLP gives detailed explanation and examples in Teaching with Blogs and Blogging while teaching, Part 2: the course blogs. She shows how she used blogging in her Queering Theory and Feminist Debates courses, but because of her thorough documentation, it would be easy to adapt her method to any discipline.
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