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Via Ten Reasons Why, I came across this summary of a recent conversation about using blogging for eLearning in schools:
Reading and Blogging here
Are Students Really Blogging? here, with response here from Sebastian Fiedler.
Who Cares About Blogging for its Own Sake? Jeremy Heibert
Surfing through the Institution Aaron Campbell
Edu-blogs are dead! Long live the Edu's! Pat Delaney
What's the Blogging Point?: Can personal webpublishing have a qualitative impact on learning James Farmer
Making Waves Ken Smith
What's the blogging point? Oliver Wrede
"Blooming" Webloggers Anne Davis
Yesterday Stephen Downes had this to say about this sporadic, disjointed conversation:
Frustrating is right, for a couple of reasons. First, because the conversation is so disjointed and sporadic. To me, this is one of those times where a Weblog just doesn't cut it unless the participants are committed to either sharing the same space or tracking back the relevant posts so that links are created.
The last point is certainly true about blog conversations in general, as I wrote last year in The Tangled Web of Blog Conversation. This point, in and of its self, presents one of the challenges of blogging as a learning tool. Blogs are not just a form of writing, they are a form of communication. Comments, trackbacks, and links are one part of this communication are the more common ways that such communication takes place. But it is disjointed, and it is tangled. Blog communications can be very hard to monitor. I believe that communication is central to elearning, and learning in general. As such, these problems with blog communications also present problems for learning. We really a conversation aggregator that can bring together conversations so that real communications and learning can take place without the frustration of tracking the replies around the web.
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