Today's Topics:
1. Blogging (Jeremy Crampton) 2. RE: Blogging (Cem Timurkan) 3. re: introduction (Lachlan Brown) 4. RE: Technology in Hollywood - Summary (Bunz, Ulla K) 5. Re: re: introduction (Ben Davidson) 6. RE: Technology in Hollywood - Summary (Frank Schaap)
Hi Everyone; My first post to AoIR. Hello everyone! I'm on the organizing committee for the AoIR conference in Toronto, so I'll probably end up posting more as the time goes on. Thanks to Barry Wellman for pointing out this strand to me, or I may not have noticed for a couple of days. I've been playing about with blogging for a couple of years. I run or coordinate about 15-20 blogs, and am coordinating some doctoral research into teacher professionalization using Blogs as data collection tools, and have run/helped run blogs with secondary, undergrad and graduate classes. I'm presently heading a team putting together an educationally focused blogging software tool called Edublog (Edublog.com) and we're in early beta testing of the tool. Members of our edublog team have used, or are using most of the major (and some of the minor) blogging tools (blogger.com, Livejournal.com (deadjournal.com), greymatter (noahgrey.com/greysoft/ now greylogs.com) thraxil.dhs.org). For a good overview on blogging for writers, have a look at a short article published this month in E2k (www.netauthor.org/e2k/) called " Ceci n'est pas un blog!". One of my research assistants has spent the year putting together a wonderful blog listing all the articles on blogging she could find on the net. The list is chronological as she found them, and she's presently organizing them into groups. The list is at http://edublog.forestry.utoronto.ca/~laurel/ (this address will change to edublog.org/~laurel pretty soon, and the old address will not work after around May 2002). There is also some blogging info in "A report on Future Trends for Online Learning Environments in North America" (http://achieve.utoronto.ca/papers/VivendiReport.html) If anyone's doing work in blogs, or wants to be kept informed on what we're doing, please email me. Hope this helps, and stimulates some discussion on what is, to me, one of the coolest things going on on the net. Jason Oh, my blog is jasonnolan.net ;-) -- Jason Nolan PhD Scholar in Residence, Knowledge Media Design Institute University of Toronto http://achieve.utoronto.ca/jason/ (416)978-5656/3884f ICQ: 6238593