{"id":270,"date":"2016-04-20T15:14:05","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T15:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-digital\/?page_id=270"},"modified":"2016-04-20T15:14:36","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T15:14:36","slug":"blogging","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-digital\/reading-topics\/blogging\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blogging offers\u00a0both a new format for the\u00a0casual essay and a potential update to the longstanding traditions of diarists. \u00a0This is a subject of great interest to historians, and yet it is still perhaps true that as late as 2016, nearly two decades into the blogging era, there is a significant degree of ambivalence and uncertainty about the format within academic history. Ralph Luker offered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/publications-and-directories\/perspectives-on-history\/may-2005\/were-there-blog-enough-and-time\" target=\"_blank\">a useful history of the history blogosphere<\/a> in a 2005 piece for AHA. \u00a0A well known blogger himself, Luker tried to rally fellow historians to the cause, but it&#8217;s clear from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/publications-and-directories\/perspectives-on-history\/may-2009\/intersections-history-and-new-media\/the-mythology-of-blogs\" target=\"_blank\">this 2009 piece by Jeffrey Wasserstein<\/a>, that there were still a number of myths and misconceptions about blogging among members of the profession. \u00a0Even today, there are relatively few historians who find the time or energy to keep up a regular blog or to devote precious classroom time to blog assignments in their courses. \u00a0Rice University historian Caleb McDaniel has been making the case, however, that classroom teachers can &#8211;and should&#8211; make good use of such assignments in history courses. \u00a0His post on <a href=\"http:\/\/wcm1.web.rice.edu\/teaching-with-blogs.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Teaching with Blogs&#8221;<\/a> offers important lessons and insights\u00a0for anyone who is aspiring to create more powerful &#8220;born digital&#8221; learning resources in a format that increasingly seems destined to endure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blogging offers\u00a0both a new format for the\u00a0casual essay and a potential update to the longstanding traditions of diarists. \u00a0This is a subject of great interest to historians, and yet it is still perhaps true that as late as 2016, nearly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-digital\/reading-topics\/blogging\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"parent":52,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-270","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/270\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}