Global Trickster

More information on the Google Notebook for the thesis (link on the right) More focused now I feel. Stepping away from the broad general idea of critical thinking in the classroom. Even using technology as a focus it was too much, too scattered. Instead I’m going to focus on a rhetorical analysis of Web 2.0 tools and how they can be applied in the classroom. There has been some discussion of blogs, but mostly on a literacy basis. I want to focus more on theory, possible on form. Examples of things I want to look into:

• the advantages/disadvantages of Web 2.0 read/write medium
• the immediacy of posts and responses, how that effects length and prose
• the social networking aspect of 2.0 as a giant peer-review
• the evolution of blogs from diaries to breaking political news (iraq and katrina)

All of this of course requires rhetorical theory as a lens to peer through. So refreshing my memory on theorist, McLuhan, Burke, etc. Anyone who understanding the importance of popular cultural study.

[tags] thesis, rhetoric, web 2.0, blogging, critical thinking [/tags]

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