How's My Blogging?

Yeeeah, I'm way late on this one, and I'm slow on my blogging. I'll pick it up, promise.

So as far as evaluating my blogging so far, we have the following. My notes will

• 1. Gain Shakespeare Literacy
  
  
  
  
  Demonstrate mastery over fundamental information about Shakespeare’s works, life, and legacy

  a. Breadth (knowledge of a range of Shakespeare’s works)

  b. Depth (more thorough knowledge of a single work)

  c. Performance (stage and screen)

  d. Legacy (history, scholarship, popular culture)

Well, I'm reading a lot of Shakespeare, and I do understand it, but my blogs certainly don't convey this. I need to work on #1.

• 2. Analyze Shakespeare Critically
  
  
  Interpret Shakespeare’s works critically in their written form, in performance (stage or screen) and in digitally mediated transformations. This includes 
  a. Textual analysis (theme, language, formal devices)
  b. Contextual analysis (historical, contemporary, cultural)
  c. Application of literary theories 
  d. Analysis of digital mediations

I also need to work on this one, turns out.

• 3. Engage Shakespeare Creatively
  
  
  
  
  a. Performance (memorization, recitation, scene on stage or video)

  b. Individual creative work (literary imitation, art, music)

  c. Collaborative creative project

I've done better with this one. I have a creative work coming (see next blog post), and have been working on a bit of a collaborative shakespeare project (that didn't get too far off the ground, but I made an attempt).

• 4. Share Shakespeare Meaningfully
  
  
  
  
  This includes engaging in the following:

  a. Formal Writing. Develop and communicate your ideas about Shakespeare clearly in formal and researched writing and through a format and medium that puts your ideas into public circulation.

  b. Informal Writing. This mainly means through regular online writing

  c. Connecting. Share one’s learning and creative work with others both in and outside of class.

I've made a little bit of an effort to share Shakespeare stuff on Facebook and Twitter, but I could do better. I also haven't been participating in the classroom blogosphere as much as I should have been.

• 5. Gain Digital Literacy
  
  
  Students use their study of Shakespeare as a way of understanding and developing fluency in 21st century learning skills and computer-mediated modes of communication. Those skills are grouped under the following categories.

  a. Consume - Effective and independent selecting, searching, researching, 

  b. Create - Producing content that demonstrates learning and which can be shared for others to profit from. 

• c. Connect - Engage with other learners within and outside of the class to develop thinking and share more formal work.

I'm not sure how much digital literacy I needed to gain, but I consider myself "perfectly adequate" as far as this is concerned. If this means going into the HTML of my blog posts and editing, I've been doing that.  I've been enough of an Internet/computer nerd for long enough that this has never truly been an issue.

So here's to more/better/more analytical blogging going forward. Cheers,

Austen