Tag Archives: Research
Academic hypertexts
Had a long talk with a colleague yesterday. He had read about wikis on Froomkin’s blog, and wondered if I knew anything about them. I pointed him to the wiki for my class this semester as an example. This is the first time I’ve used a wiki in such a setting, and it needs a […]
The open classroom
[This is part of a draft of the chapter I’m writing for the International Handbook of Virtual Learning Environments, forthcoming from Springer.] The most obvious difference between keeping a traditional journal or portfolio of work and keeping a weblog is that the former is likely to remain relatively private–shared between the author, a teacher, and […]
Weblogs as “replacement” educational tech
[This is part of a draft of the chapter I’m writing for the International Handbook of Virtual Learning Environments, forthcoming from Springer.] Technologies provide a “valence” of potential uses, to borrow the terminology of Carolyn Marvin (1990), writing in the context of the early adoption of the telephone. What we think of as the telephone […]
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