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Already we are boldly launched upon the deep; but soon we shall be lost in its unshored, harborless immensities. --Melville, Moby Dick, Chap. 32, "Cetology"
In assigning my students to blog, rather than to write traditional research papers, I have launched them into an ocean of possibility with more hope than certainty. Will these untried vessels of communication be adequate for the "harborless immensities" that await them in the cyber-sea? And now, one third of the way into our time together, we have lost sight of shore and I am taking stock. Are our blogs a leaky fleet, or are they making sail toward real destinations?
I see a few bloggers starting to take off, raising their sails into the wind. How does this happen?
