It appears that MIT is establishing a space for students, faculty, and others to setup weblogs. Click here.
On the MIT site they refer readers to Diego Doval’s introduction to weblogs: Part 1 and Part 2
They’ll be teaching a class entitled “Getting started with weblogs” over the Independent Activities Period (IAP) in January.
There’s more information about this at Research & Innovation at MIT.
My heart is heavy today as I lost a good friend after her two month bout with cancer. Her funeral was today.
My bond with Diana was not only as a teacher, but also as a friend and a mother. Our two oldest daughters, my Jill and Diana’s Lara have been best friends since pre-school. We shared many treasured moments over the years….. the joys, the love and yes, even the highs and lows all familes share.
The above words are part of the eulogy I said today for my good friend Diana. I will miss her.
Nice email from Dr. Calandra, Assistant Professor of Instructional Technology here at GSU…
Hi Anne,
I would like to thank you for showing my graduate multimedia students how to use Web logs.
We have been able to use this communication tool as a starting point for class discussions, and we have been able to use it as a way for students to take those discussions to “the next level”.
Thanks again for your time and expertise.
Best Regards,
Brendan
Now, that gives me incentive to keep on trying to get more professors using weblogs with their students. Thanks Brendan, for the nice words!
I just put together some of my initial end-of-project thoughts on the Literature Circles EduBlog project.
Yesterday I had a really good session with the Wrinkles group - hope to post on that soon.
I just put together some of my initial end-of-project thoughts on the Literature Circles EduBlog project.
Yesterday I had a really good session with the Wrinkles group - hope to post on that soon.
I just put together some of my initial end-of-project thoughts on the Literature Circles EduBlog project.
Yesterday I had a really good session with the Wrinkles group - hope to post on that soon.
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Jill Walker’s post today about her talk at Brown is so good. She is planning to talk mostly about using blogs with students. She is going to stress network literacy and how blogging is not simply keeping an electronic journal, it’s distributed and collaborative; it’s learning to think and write with the network. She’s also going to talk a bit about the ethics of insisting students blog in public. I sure wish I could be in attendance!
A few excerpts follow but you HAVE to read her post to follow all the links that show examples.
Bringing network literacy to the classroom means jolting students out of the conventional individualistic, closed writing of essays only ever seen by your professor.
Encouraging linking is key.
Overturns conventional power relationships - who defines who?
How empowering is it to be forced to blog?
Blogging isn’t for everybody
Best learning experiences unplanned: L. and the web diarist; the way students started teaching each other, connections between students and others.
This post will really make you think - thanks for sharing, Jill. Still wish I could be in the audience for the entire talk!Blog News for Bloggers conducted a survey on blogging. The survey ended December 1, 2003. 610 people particpated in the survery. Check out the results here.
I’ve been test-driving some free weblog hosting sites, one of which is on blog-city.com. It is called ESL Insights. I want to refer you to the post I made today because I think it contains such good information for all of us who are weblogging. It’s not about weblogs, per se but the content is so applicable to what we are trying to do with students!
I love this part in the reflection section… “Reflection is thinking about and making sense of experience and possibilities. This article has so much food for thought that my head is spinning.
I do know one thing - handling one weblog is more than enough for me. As I am test-driving other free sites I find getting to all of them a chore! I will probably delete them later but there is something about being able to put all your ideas in one spot. I know lots of other webloggers who run more than one site and do a great job. I want so much to do this reflecting part and do a better job of evaluating but somedays I feel stretched to the limit. I can’t get to all of it but I sure do want to. Anybody else ever have similar feelings?
Oh yes, on another note my proposal for NECC was accepted - “Weblogs in Education….the Possibilities Are Limitless”. I had submitted a proposal to SITE - “Using Weblogs to Bring Literature Circles Online in Preservice Education” that proposal was not. I thought it was the better of the two proposals…go figure, huh? Anyway, New Orleans, here I come! I hope everyone will get to NECC this summer!