Hello everyone, and welcome to the LEAD 217 Blog. Lead 217 is a developmental writing class at Butte College that "focuses on sentence structure in the context of student writing." For the sections of the course which I teach, there is a computer lab component and, beginning this semester, much of that lab time will be devoted to writing practice in the form of personal web logs (blogs.) It is my hope that creating your own blogs as part of this class will help you to meet our course objectives, give you valuable writing and reading practice, develop your awareness of audience and personal writing style, foster creativity and thoughtful expression, and give you a chance to voice your opinions and ideas on a variety of topics as well as explore and respond to the views of others.
Writing is essentially a means of communicating ideas and information across time and space, and as such it is meant to be shared. Web logs offer the best opportunity that has ever existed to share your thoughts with others. Imagine that, once you hit "publish" on your post, hundreds of millions of people around the world will have the potential to access your words! Hopefully your experience blogging in this class will give you some insight into the power and importance of the written word as a means of communication as well as an understanding of the need to write clearly for your intended audience.
The LEAD 217 blog is intended to be a link to the blogs of all students in my classes; it is also a way for me to participate in and experience the practice of blogging. Therefore, I will be responding to the journal topics along with you, and my blogs will be open for comments just as yours are. I look forward to everything you have to say this semester, and I hope you enjoy your time and experience in the LEAD 217 writing lab.
This Blog has been created as a sample for students in my Language Education and Development (LEAD) 217 writing classes at Butte College in Oroville, CA.
About Me
- Daniel
- I am a developmental writing instructor at Butte College in Oroville, CA. I am also an ESL instructor at the American Language and Culture Institute at CSU, Chico, CA. This is my first attempt at blogging, and I'm hoping that this experience will inform me about the blogging process and serve as a guide for using blogs as a teaching tool in the classroom.
1 comment:
Daniel, Thank you for taking time to teach this class. I am learning things about myself that amazes me. Like the way I write things down all the time to remind me what I said or was thinking. Then I could not understand what I had written. Because of the way I wrote it. Also I like doing the boggs. Bogging is a fun way to explore thoughts, my own, as well as other's. Again, thank you.
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