Blogging identities

Thanks so much for your quotes from James Paul Gee's book What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy in your "Educational Blogging: A Writer's Place" paper because they are intriguing for the work that Michael and I are doing on creating online identities, competent participants, and projecting oneself into a specific community. I will have to get that book and read what Gee has to say. I'll come back to this when I know more.

By the way, I think there are two different ways to understand the word "remediation." In composition work from the 1980's - such as Mike Rose's Lives on the Boundary -- remediation referred to remedy and remedial, as in courses for basic writing. Now, we use "remediation" to refer to moving from one medium to another - from, say, a book to a movie to a TV series.

Question about Response

If anyone is interested, I have a pressing question as I work on my thesis: How doesthe way we (as writers/students/teachers?) view response change when that response comes from writing we have posted on the Web? As opposed to the response we get within a classroom? I'm not even sure how to ask this. Posting writing on a blog opens us up to response from a much wider audience, so the awareness of this must change something in our attitudes about writing. I'm hoping there's a link here to my paper on educational blogging... I'm still getting to know blogging.