Tag Archives: blogs

Blogging in the plural

By alex | Published: 10/28/2005
Most scholarly treatments of blogging begin with a reference to Rebecca Blood’s (2000) history of the idea of blogging, or draw on a standardized definition like the one offered by Jill Walker (2003), which suggests that a weblog is “a frequently updated website consisting of dated entries arranged in reverse chronological order,” and goes on […]
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Sometimes signal, sometimes noise.

By alex | Published: 10/13/2005
The Chronicle of Higher Ed has a history of writing things about blogs that seem to stick in the craw of scholarly bloggers. Luckily Henry Farrell managed to slip something in that not only makes sense, but is actually bordering on the manifesto. (And no, I don’t like it just because he managed to make […]
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Blogging / Wiki slides

By alex | Published: 9/28/2005
Presentation in a few minutes on blogging and wikis in teaching. Here is a pdf of the slides: pdf The presentation detailed here is a bit generic. I’ll see if I can capture audio for it as well. Hopefully, we can do something a bit less linear with the process.
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Blogs/Wiki Workshop

By alex | Published: 9/23/2005
Not a lot of people are local readers, but if you happen to be one, I’m doing a workshop for the Educational Technology Center at the University at Buffalo on Weblogs and Wikis this coming Wednesday (9/28) from 10am to noon. Register (for free!) at the ETC site. I’ll post related materials as soon as… […]
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