Hayrick’s Blog Explorations

I tried out the Wordle service today, having come across a recommendation in the Edublogger. It gives a graphic display of the most frequently occurring words in any feed or chunk of text. I fed it our WinK student blogs mega-feed.I suspect that it might only be handling recent posts, as words like [...]

I recently obtained Dialogue with Bakhtin on Second and Foreign Language Learning, edited by Hall, Vitanova, and Marchenkova. One of the chapters*, written by Karen Braxley, has some interesting things to say about appropriation of genres, and its relationship to plagiarism. The students whose experiences and views form the main subject of the [...]