Say Yes! to Blogging about Blogging

Hi All:

As part of our ongoing quest to understand how and why blogs can (or ought to) be used as a tool to teach writing, it has been suggested that we have a space of our own in which we can share ideas, reflect on our experiences, and build a community of knowledge rather than merely fending for ourselves. Hence, this blog.

While our primary audience is presumably ourselves--the six of us part of a blogging study at Northern Illinois University--our larger readership may potentially include other instructors in the Department of English and at other universities. With this in mind, I do not want to presume anything at this point, and I have questions about what the protocol is (are we free to refer to each other by name, for example?).

So long as I'm not being presumptuous, I wanted to mention that if anyone does not like the name of this blog or has any better ideas, by all means comment on this post.

Thanks, and I'm looking forward to reading your posts!