We’re finding it difficult to keep up with the edblogosphere, and the resulting silence feels strangely appealing. Maybe the answer isn’t trying to read and write more, but focusing on deeper, more meaningful engagement instead of adding to the overload.
Interesting to use a post on distributed conversations to show how distributed conversations work. But we think it’s informative. Alan started this process description, but for our own clarification, we’re going to deconstruct our own. It seems very chaotic as we look at it now, but in practice it’s pretty flow like. The key, seriously, … Read more
Ok, look. We know we’re probably just beating our head against a wall here, but this kind of article really, really bothers us: “On Xanga, students make their life an open blog”. AAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH! Here’s a contest. Really. It’s easy. Show us how kids using Xanga are blogging. We’re sure there must be some students actually … Read more
From the “Throwing it Out There to See What Sticks Department” here are some very raw thoughts about the various types of Weblog posts for teachers and students and where they fit on our very indistinct blogging scale: – Posting assignments. (Not blogging) – Journaling, i.e. “This is what we did today.” (Not blogging) – … Read more