Thursday, August 18, 2005

Other blogging articles…

As you can see in the lower right hand corner, there are a number of other blogs that I try to read. So today, I thought I’d link to some recent posts by these folks that I found interesting.

The first is from Will Richardson’s Weblogg-ed News: The Read/Write Web in the Classroom. In the post titled Real Student Journalism, Will ponders how student journalism should be changing with the abundance of new technologies, technologies that put an immense amount of editorial control into the hands of students. Definitely something to ponder. I wonder how many journalism teachers are even close to the cutting edge here.

Another one of Will’s articles, Read/Write Web and Content, provides his thoughts on the nature of web content. We need to be able to access it, create it, collect it, and connect it. I think he is spot on with all these thoughts. My concern is that we have so many people (that we seem to be fighting) that see it as only one way (primarily access) or no way (the whole thing is irrelevant). The shared vision isn’t there, but I guess maybe it needs time to evolve and the rest of us need to keep evangelizing. There is some great stuff on Will’s blog. I love reading it.

Over on Anne Davis’s EduBlog Insights, she recently tossed out some possible answers to the question, What did you blog in school today? Instead of students explaining what they did in school (which is usually “nothing"), students would tell us what they blogged about today. I like reading about Anne’s ideas, too. She expresses a lot of the details about a classroom that make it a powerful student-centered place, especially when technologies like blogs are used.

These are just two examples out there of great ed tech thinkers! Check out the other links, too. They’re all worthwhile reading! And if you’re not on my list, let me know..

Posted by Randy on 08/18 at 08:46 AM
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