Tested and discovered that the Search in blogger.com does not very well support CL input. Hence, the building of a teacher’s repository isn’t advisable as things will become ‘lost’ in no time.
Further tested the movabletype Search. It performs without problem when searching content in CL.
ePortfolio (with blog option)
This is a proprietary system developed by Audree Thurman for building of an ePortfolio. Looking at the types of pages available, this will definitely gives teachers/students more choices for organising their stuff, other than just blogs.
OLEs/VLEs
About online/virtual learning enviroments, like wat James Farmer said, it will take 1-2 weeks (or months!?)to digest these resources.
Blogging resource Links
A good starting point for many blogging resources.
Look under “software and tools” for use when rolling out.
Ways to use weblogs in education
Anne Davis took a look at the possiblities from these few perspectives:
1. creating a reflective, journal type blog to …
2. starting a class blog to …
3. encourging students to blog thru comments given to …
4. having your students create their own weblogs to …
5. asking your class to create a shared weblog to …
See the full possibilities here 🙂