Katt Blackwell-Starnes (smartykatt)'s Public Profile in the Diigo Community

I am a doctoral candidate in rhetoric just beginning research on my dissertation. I will be working with social bookmarking and the teaching of academic research at the post-secondary level. I am a techno-guru who spends a good bit of free time training my colleagues to use new medias.

I am interested in social media,rhetoric,reader response theory,social bookmarking,web 2.0,digital media,podcasting,phd,graduate school,writing,research,reading. My favorite music are Folk,Indie,bluegrass,southern rock. Movies: Serenity,Finding Forrester,10 Things I Hate About You,Much Ado About Nothing,Legally Blonde. TV: NCIS,Eureka,CSI,Firefly,Dollhouse. Books: Mrs. Dalloway,Rhetoric of Rhetoric,The Second Sex,Man Cannot Speak For Her,Orlando. My Heros are Virginia Woolf,FDR,Wayne Booth,Sojourner Truth.

I use Diigo because I have tried many of the social bookmarking sites and Diigo is the only one that presents a useful interface for academic research. I love the comment and note feature; it saves me a considerable amount of printing and hand annotating my work.

Member since May 20, 2009, follows 24 people, 4 public groups, 200 public bookmarks (202 total).

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Top Tags:	writing(35), bibliography(34), digital media(33), dissertation(29), course size(27), technology(23), computers(18), FYC(17), education(16), history(15)

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News: A Call for Copyright Rebellion - Inside Higher Ed on 2009-11-07
Studies Explore Whether the Internet Makes Students Better Writers - Faculty - The Chronicle of Higher Education on 2009-11-05
- "What was interesting to us was how small a percentage of the total writing the school writing was," says Jeffrey T. Grabill, the study's lead author, who is director of the Writing in Digital Environments Research Center at Michigan State. In the diaries and in follow-up interviews, he says, students often described their social, out-of-class writing as more persistent and meaningful to them than their in-class work was.
- "People write more now than ever
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- - students who compose messages for an audience of their peers on a social-networking Web site were forced to be acutely aware of issues like audience, tone, and voice.
Rhetorics of the Web: Plato on Writing on 2009-10-22
- Once a thing is put in writing, it rolls
  about all over the place, falling into the hands of those who have no concern
  with it just as easily as under the notice of those who comprehend; it
  has no notion of whom to address or whom to avoid. And when it is ill-treated
  or abused as illegitimate, it always needs its father to help it, being
  quite unable to protect or help itself.
Taming the Beast: Social Bookmarking - 3/1/2007 - School Library Journal on 2009-09-26
- empowering
- an old school move
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- - Developing self-organizational skills in this world of overwhelming information is key to enhancing your professional and personal learning practice. And the good news is, with tags and folksonomies, we’re all in this together
Folksonomies - 41 Resources | EDUCAUSE on 2009-08-20
JHU | English - Graduate Program on 2009-08-08
- Graduate students will take three courses each semester of their first year, and two each semester of their second year. The first and fourth years will normally be supported by fellowship. During the second, third, and fifth years students will normally teach to earn their stipends, in the second year by serving as a teaching assistant for a lecture course, in the third and fifth years by teaching expository writing. Training and practice in teaching are regarded as an integral part of the graduate program. On some occasions graduate students, with prior approval of the faculty, conduct undergraduate courses of their own design.
UMass Amherst SRRI -- CRS Bibliography on 2009-08-05
- Real-time formative assessment: A study of teachers' use of an electronic response system to facilitate serious discussion about physics concepts.
EBSCOhost: Information Literacy from the Trenches: How Do Humanities and Social Scienc... on 2009-08-01
Technological Ecologies & Sustainability | Computers and Composition Digital Press on 2009-07-24
Using Technology to Foster Learning in Large Lecture Classes on 2009-07-24

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