Without realising it earlier, I only came upon this piece of news when I did a google search of my own name. *gasp*
Well, another piece of write-up for archival purposes.
An example of a class/course blog
This is an example of how a teacher can make use of blog to communicate ideas and facilitate discussions with his class.
The blog also doubles as a repository, where students of past, present and future can obtain references.
The Two-Punch Power of Weblogs in Education
Rather than focusing on a single tool, this piece will address a phenomenon which, for the example it sets, underscores the importance of new programs like BEAT. That phenomenon is both an idea and a set of tools known as personal Webpublishing -also known as weblogging, or blogging, after its most prominent form. Here, specifically, we will look at how weblogs are making an impacting on education.
By shortening and simplifying content publication and processing, personal Web publishing practices, like weblog authoring, content aggregation and syndication, and the formation of conversational networks, address a number of important needs of today’s learning environment. To keep things simple, here we will highlight just two -what might be called the two-punch power of weblogs in education.
The full article goes here.
[source: incsub.org]
Communication Dynamics Research Results
RSS Feeds for US Newspapers
In this blog entry, we can find at least 155 newspaper feeds indexed. Our very own ST has been providing feeds, just wondering when is zaobao.com catching up? *hmm*
[source: weblogged-ed.com]