The current issue of Kairos has a couple of articles focusing on wiki and weblog technology in online collaboration and writing pedagogy. Very interresting – I shold have made an english article of my master thesis.
[thanks to Jens for notifying]
A vast body of web-litterature on weblogs has been compiled on Kairosnews. Lots of interresting material to be found here…
Somehow I stumbled upon this answer to a question on why weblogs are used in education. Good thinking and good linking has always been one of my favourites…
The webiste may be interresting as a whole, but I lack the time to look further into it for now.
Kairosnews.org has yet a contribution in the discussion of weblogs as a medium in teaching writing. This post has some good thoughts on how to assess weblogs in writing courses, and whether to set up criteria for posting and commenting.
The author of th post is against defining criteria for weblog writing – but in my opinion he confuses teaching writing in a broad perspective and teaching writing in relation to weblogs. To me, it all depends on the intention of using weblogs as a teaching tool is; what students learn from using weblogs surely can be affected by defining criteria in regard to the actual weblog.
…is a weblog written by a ph.d. in rhetorics in Minnesota – see her CV with interresting publications. Culturecat.net carries the subtitle ‘rhetoric&feminism’ but I landed on a nice little text on weblogs in teaching. Thus I realized that the subtitle might otherwise have scared me off – and that made me aware of one of my prejudices – feminist studies. Out of ignorance I approach the field cautiously, but until now, my encounters with feminist approaches have not yet given me any reason to voluntarily seek more knowledge from that particular field of theory.
Feel free to enlighten me!
Well, having already made two posts in 10 minutes I’ll just post some links here for later elucidation.
Article on weblogs in education sporting Laura Gurak (via weblogg-ed)
Weblogs in education holds a place near my heart – but I must admit that other applications supporting online educations also are of great interrest. Recently I was made aware of Moodle – It’s a cms (they claim the acronym stands for course management system – and here I was, believing a cms was a content management system…)
This is the first of a hopefully exhausting round of reposting from my old weblog. First repost is the last post with my thesis abstract:
This thesis takes an analytic view on the potential use of weblogs as a tool in teaching writing, with an offset in weblogs as a platform for the collaboration of writing groups. Furtermore, this thesis surveys the general recommendations in writing pedagogy to find ways of combining weblog technology and writing pedagogy.
The first part of the thesis describes the weblog as a phenomenon in relation to general educational uses, and dissects the standardfuntions of the weblog to provide the reader with an introduction in and understanding of the technology upon which the weblog is based.
The second part very specifically analyses how the weblog as an Internet based tool of communication supports the writing group in relation to aspects such as feedback and revision of texts. Furtermore the thesis offers ideas on how to use weblogs as electronic portfolios and digital research papers as a tool to inspire the reflective student.
The thesis concludes that weblogs still cannot match the existing word-processing tools regarding revision and commenting on texts. Instead, the thesis offers some recommendations on and examples of the use of weblogs as a personal and collaborative learning tool.
Originally posted 15.12.2003
Update: The full thesis (in danish) is available for download along with its pilot project (also in danish).