Archive for the ‘Education’ Category

Blogging in the Liberal Arts Classroom

Tuesday, September 14th, 2004

Barbara Ganley has posted her complete BlogTalk paper titled “Blogging as a Dynamic, Transformative Medium in an American Liberal Arts Classroom” which, not surprisingly, is an enthusiastic and articulate reflection on her successes using Weblogs in the classroom. It’s another great resource for teachers of all levels.

Source weblogg-ed: Blogging as a Dynamic, Transformative Medium in an American Liberal Arts Classroom (document Word)

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Blogs, Wikis et éducation

Friday, September 10th, 2004

Deux articles proposés par kaspar et icon sur le portail tecfaseed. Les articles en question s’intitulent: Wide Open Spaces: Wikis, Ready or Not, Weblogs in Education - a means for organisational change (document PDF).

Update: à signaler aussi Educational Blogging

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Blogs et éducation

Tuesday, August 24th, 2004

Via Weblog Tools Collection, l’article In the Classroom, Web Logs Are the New Bulletin Boards:

Classroom Web logs, or blogs, many of which got their start in the last school year, are becoming increasingly popular with teachers like Mrs. Dudiak as a forum for expression for students as young as the second-grade level and in almost any subject. In the blogs, students write about how they attacked a tough math problem, post observations about their science experiments or display their latest art projects.

For teachers, blogs are attractive because they require little effort to maintain, unlike more elaborate classroom Web sites, which were once heralded as a boon for teaching. Helped by templates found at sites like tblog.com and movabletype.org, teachers can build a blog or start a new topic in an existing blog by simply typing text into a box and clicking a button.

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Educational blogging as a research tool

Wednesday, August 18th, 2004

Educational blogging as a research tool

I believe that educational blogging is a very powerful vehicle to collect and aggregate research and assignment information as well as a powerful means to assimilate and search the stored information by a worldwide audience. I am sure this is already being done on some scale at the more famous (and thus more financially secure) institutions, but the concept has yet to reach the thousands of less fortunate (for the lack of a better term) Colleges and educational institutions. Let me elaborate.

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RSS et éducation

Tuesday, August 10th, 2004

Un bel article montre comment utiliser les technologies des blogs et des RSS dans un institut scolaire, comment les professeurs pourraient exploiter ces deux outils afin d’améliorer l’enseignement et le contact aussi avec les parents d’élèves. A lire tout ça dans l’article RSS could transform online communication publié sur le site eSchools News.

Source Weblogg-ed News

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Les blogs de l’EPFL

Wednesday, July 7th, 2004

Depuis quelques temps, l’Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, met à disposition aux étudiants et aux membres du personnel la possibilité de créer des blogs personnels (comme celui d’Emmanuel Eckard). Bel effort de l’institut Suisse même si les étudiants ne peuvent pas modifier le template graphique du blog et il me semble qu’un système de trackback n’est pas mis en place. De plus il semblerait que des archives mensuels ne soient pas disponibles bien qu’un calendrier est fourni sur chaque blog (j’aime pas les calendriers, à mon sens ils ne sont pas très utiles et utilisables). Mais un fichier RSS est disponible et bien mis en évidence sur chaque blog. Le visiteur peut également être notifié par email lorsqu’un blog a été mis à jour.

Il serait également intéressant d’obtenir une liste ordonnée alphabétiquement (et chronologiquement) de tous les blogs crées avec des informations supplémentaires (auteur, date de création, nombre de billets, nombre de commentaires, dernière modification…), mais peut être que cette liste existe déjà mais elle est accessible aux seuls membres de l’institut.

Question ouverte: est-ce que les anciens étudiants et les anciens membres du personnel qui ont commencé un blog à l’EPFL pourront-ils continuer à l’utiliser après leurs études?

En tout cas il s’agit d’un bel effort de la part de l’EPFL.

Update 8 juillet 2004: les blogs comme les comptes emails des étudiants et des membres du personnel sont éternels.

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Key Concepts for Teaching with Weblogs

Wednesday, July 7th, 2004

Weblogging seems like such a potentially rich set of online writing activities because it is relatively low-tech compared to producing hypertext or websites, and it incorporates familiar writing skills like summary, paraphrases, and the development of voice. The mix of generic, technical, and psychological factors clearly grabs and compels some people to weblog extensively, and as teachers of writing, we want to tap into that mix. Rebecca Blood, author of the first print handbook for blogging (2002) and a widely cited history of weblogging (2000), offered a vision of blogging’s potential for developing writers. She envisioned that the small community that might start up around a weblogger would encourage that person to continue writing where he or she might otherwise stop, and that readers of weblogs might in turn begin their own blogs and reap similar benefits. Her vision is one that many writing instructors share for their students, whether attained through blogging, journaling, discussion boards, class projects, or other genres

Remediation, Genre, and Motivation: Key Concepts for Teaching with Weblogs

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Blogs dans les classes

Thursday, July 1st, 2004

Quelques pistes et des liens utiles dans le dernier billet publié par Paperbark (consulter aussi ses billets précédents).

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Into the blogosphere

Thursday, July 1st, 2004

Découverte ce matin du blog Into the Blogosphere qui montre des exemples, accompagnés avec des analyses, de l’usage des blogs dans différents domaines. A découvrir:

This online, edited collection explores discursive, visual, social, and other communicative features of weblogs. Essays analyze and critique situated cases and examples drawn from weblogs and weblog communities. Such a project requires a multidisciplinary approach, and contributions represent perspectives from Rhetoric, Communication, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Linguistics, and Education, among others.

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