Back then we mentioned about a principal’s blog, now we have at least one superintendent out there who is also on the blogging wagon 🙂
Check it out here.
[source: EdTech Insider]
The Edublog Awards 2004 Results
Communication Dynamics in Discussion Board and Weblogs
The ASCILITE Conference 2004 held in Perth, Australia was just over.
Among the many papers presented during the conference, a paper “Communication dynamics: Discussion boards, weblogs and the development of communities of inquiry in online learning environments” by James Farmer was among them.
Blog–Ed Tech Tool of the Year ?
Will Richardson has stated FIVE(5) good reasons why he thinks that Blog should be titled the educational technology tool of 2004 in his post. In his words, blogs can provide:
1. Audience
2. Constructivist Learning
3. Collaborative Learning
4. Critical Reading, Thinking and Writing Skills
5. Information Literacy Skills
As presented during the EdTech Award Ceremony 2004, we too believe that the potential of blogs has yet to be unleashed, especially in the context of Singapore education.
I am not sure if anyone here has explored wiki, but looking at the online tools that we have experimented so far, web page, email, forum, none of which is so easy to use to faciliate teaching and learning. Best of all, blog empowers our students with ownership, the blog itself, as well as learning.
Merriam-Webster #1 Word of the Year for 2004
Guess what? Merriam-Webster Online has proclaimed the word Blog as the #1 Word of the Year for 2004!
Check it out here.
[Soruce: Ed-Tech Insider]