Aggregation
James Farmer posts an interesting comment about Steve Krause’s When Blogging Goes Bad: A Cautionary Tale About Blogs, Emailing Lists, Discussion, and Interaction. Krause concludes that email lists were...
View ArticleBlogtalk Downunder
For various reasons I haven’t posted here for a while but I have been busy preparing a paper for Blogtalk Downunder our first homegrown blogger confest. My abstract is below, readers of this blog will...
View ArticleBlogTalk Downudner: Conversation and reflection
Ian McColl from UQ gave a very interesting paper on blogging in their studio based IT design course. Lots of interesting things about studio practice (the architecture model) that could have relevance...
View ArticleBlog Talk: Sebastian Fieldler
Sebastian Fieldler in the final keynote contrasted two ideas: innovation/revolution and renaissance. He noted Carl Bereiter’s work that innovations in education are often taken up with great enthusiasm...
View ArticleBlogs versus Discussion Boards
I’ve been thinking again about blogs versus discussion boards. I have always been very anti-discussion boards because personally I don’t like them as a reader or user. I find them aesthetically...
View ArticleGone Carnivalesque
I guess I’ve been buttoned down and not hanging in the blogsphere enough recently but I’ve just discovered the whole “carnival” thing (thanks Clancy here and here). They are great peer produced...
View ArticleStudent’s grow-up with blogs
Dennis Jerz‘ blogging project at Seton Hill is the subject of a good profile in the Pitsburg Post Gazette, which he gleefully pointed out to Kairos readers. The anecdotal piece raises a number of key...
View ArticleBlogs at Sydney Uni take off
Found an interesting article from the Australian’s Higher Education supplement about Sydney University’s embrace of blogging. It’s bizarre that the most traditional of universities would be the first...
View ArticleStudent blogs
I have just finished marking 75 student blogs and 75 reflective essays from this semester’s features course.I had the students posting three times a week in three categories: observations from life,...
View ArticleStudent blogs as uni promotion
A number of universities are using student blogs as a kind of “reality ad” for their courses and campus life. Here in Sydney UTS had an ill fated go at it that didn’t really take off but as I noted …...
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