Tag Archives: EduBlogging

Killing edublogging

By alex | Published: 4/14/2005
James Farmer suggests two ways in which educational blogging as a widespread activity may be effectively killed: 1. University-created blogging systems and 2. Courseware-integrated systems. I’m less concerned about the first. We started a school-level blogging server about two years ago now (what has evolved into Schoolof.info), using first Moveable Type and then WordPress. I […]
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Responses to the weblog-only class

By alex | Published: 12/6/2004
Although I’ve used weblogs extensively in previous classes, this is the first time I used them largely instead of physical class meetings. In my own opinion, this is not the best way to use weblogs. I wish that it were otherwise, but I think weblogs are best used as a way of enhancing the classroom […]
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Blogged, podcast, wikied, frontchanneled

By alex | Published: 11/25/2004
So, the cyberporn class was going to be simple. You know: daily lectures and a bunch of bubble-tests. But now, I am weighing which tech elements to include, and there will probably be a lot. The trick is, what I learn by using these technologies will end up becoming how I teach in every class… […]
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2004 Academic Weblog Awards: Nominations

By alex | Published: 11/20/2004
Notice that there is no “Scholarly Blog” category for the 2004 weblog awards. Given some recent interest in the area, this sounds like something there _should_ be, if only so that we have a better grasp of what people think is important in an academic weblog. So I propose you make such nominations here. I […]
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