Message: 10 From: dca4@georgetown.edu I'm having two of my classes use weblogs this semester. Students in one class are keeping journals, writing about anything they desire, http://cct723.blogspot.com. Another class is using them in a more structured manner to answer weekly questions, http://cct717.blogspot.com, then read each others answers. Please browse, if you have a chance.

Are others using blogs as an educational information sharing or creativity device? Would love to discuss what you are finding. I'm getting very mixed reactions from students, especially those asked to journal. Dorine

Dorine Andrews

I've been using them for a couple of years with grad classes. This year I have 20 students in a graduate knowledge media design program blogging, and just finishing up an assignment assessing some of the major flavours: blogger, Moveable Type, Live Journal and a Twiki (ya, it's not really a blog, but that's what they're doing with it.) If anyone's interested in having a look at the assessment assignment, here it is: http://achieve.utoronto.ca/twiki/bin/view/KMD1000/WebHome and the ongoing student work is at http://achieve.utoronto.ca/twiki/bin/view/KMD1000/KmdiGroup and I'll have their final projects up in a month. This may be of interest to researchers and educators wondering why they would choose one web log implimentation over another. Along with a buddy, I also have 30 undergrads studying writer critics (Sidney, Dryden, Arnold, Wordsworth & Elliot) who are blogging in place of major written assignments. Visible at http://edublog.com/docs/kuin/ My research assistants also use blogs to organize data. Mostly Moveabletype, because of the category features. Students always hate to write. It seems. Blogger also seems to be the hardest for some students due to the design. Not that any of them are good. If you want to talk off list email me, or iChat (aka AIM): complicitytheory, or if there's interest from others, a group chat on my CVE. Jason -- ------ Jason Nolan, PhD Scholar in Residence Knowledge Media Design Institute Room7224 Bahen Centre for Information Technology 40 St. George St. University of Toronto Toronto, ON M5S 2E4 Canada --- mailto:jason.nolan@utoronto.ca phone:416-946-8513 http://achieve.utoronto.ca/jason/ *** Note New Address ***