Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric Apr 2008 Open Access

Disaster Pedagogy/Building Communities: From Wikis and Websites to Hammers and Nails

Holly Baumgartner ; Jennifer Discher

Abstract

Mercy College professors in Toledo, Ohio responded to Hurricane Katrina through a disaster pedagogy. Students in composition classes created research wikis and participated in email dialogues and exchanges with University of New Orleans students. A new course, Service in Action: The Sociological Impact of Hurricane Katrina, was also created involving an alternative, volunteer-based spring break trip. This reflection explores how communal engagement is shaped, augmented, and challenged by the use of emergent technologies, and how, through the lens of service-learning, students may find their own voices, coming to recognize that they have the power and where-with-all to effect change.

Journal
Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric
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2008-04-01
DOI
10.59236/rjv7i1-2pp187-197
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writing pedagogy service learning
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