Al Essa, MIT/Sloan School of Business’ CIO and the founding father of the Open Source dotLRN learning management platform, has a new (albeit goofily named) weblog about Open Source in higher ed (and related technology issues). Check it out.
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Evaluating Students' Weblogs
Here’s a great post on student blogging from Middlebury College professor Barbara Ganley’s bgblogging (which I just added to my blogroll). Here’s an excerpt: In the 1970s and 80s, following the lead of Peter Elbow and Donald Graves, among others, we focussed on process–how to get ideas stirring and on the paper, how to infuse […]
Please Welcome Sabine Kirstein to the Blogosphere
Sabine is a former colleague and a smart cookie. I’m pleased to see that she has started a blog. Add this one to your RSS reader.
Using LiveJournal in EFL Classes
Aaron Campbell at Ryukoku University has a great piece out on how to use LiveJournal to teach EFL. It has everything you’d want in this sort of an article, including a rationale for choosing the particular technology and step-by-step instructions for educators. This is one of the clearest, most concrete examples I’ve seen for using […]
digital amalgam :Going Wide or Going Deep? Blogs or Discussion
Jim Woodel has a thoughtful blog post in response to the Complese class blog that I noted in my own last post. Here’s a sample: I really, really like the idea of either discussion tools or blog tools that give the instructor some ability to manipulate display based on pedagogy. I’ll have to do some […]
Great Example of Using a Blog in a Class
Cole Complese provides a great model of one way to use a class blog. Take a look at this post as a good example. The use of the rubric is smart. One of the things that this highlights for me, though, is that blogs and discussion boards ultimately need to fuse. What you have here […]
The Definitive Article on Educational Blogging
I’m going to do something I normally don’t like to do an echo blog this. Stephen Downes’ piece on educational blogging in EDUCAUSE is currently the definitive piece on blogging in education. Well worth the read whether you are a newbie or a veteran. I don’t really have anything of use to add here; Stephen […]