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XplanaZine: The Futuremeter

The FutureMeter is a monthly aggregation of research and writing centered on education and technology.

Specifically, FutureMeter targets evolving trends in the following categories: 1) For-Profit and Traditional Universities, 2) Learning Experience and Learning Assessment, 3) Learning Objects and Textbooks, 4) Small, Large, and Open Source LMS Platforms, 5) Instructional Design, and 6) Important Technology News...

Blogs vs. Blackboard

Blackboard, Students and Publishing on the Web

Blogs as Course Management Systems: Is their biggest advantage also their achille's heel?

Teaching, Learning, Blogging

This blog was created in July 2003 in support of a project associated with the USCA Ubiquitous Campus Computing Grant. The blog was modified in April 2004 as part of USCA's 2004 Academic Technology Conference.

Presentations on Blogging from the conference:
Blogging for Teaching and Learning
The Blogosphere: What's in It for Me?
Do You Blog? Weblogs for Educators
Bloggercon Webcast

More Blogging Resources

Cole Camplese Links

Cole Camplese: Learning & Innovation

Blog Survey … Some Early Insight
"We received 37 total responses for this out of a class of 42. One thing to note was that I posted a considerable amount of content on the class blog (several posts per week) and students were only asked to respond to a single, graded Discussion Activity every week. They decided if they wanted to comment on my general posts."

I’ve Been Saying This For A While …
"But anyways the class blog was great for helping others with posts and encouraging us to talk about class related material outside of class. Hmm haven’t ever done that before."

Tools that Change Learning   PDF (4.5 Mb)
"Cole expressed, and nearly everyone agreed, that commercial LMSs (i.e., Learning Management Systems) aren't impacting learning in an innovative way...they simply add traditional classroom elements...electronically."

When Blogging Goes Bad

When Blogging Goes Bad: A Cautionary Tale About Blogs, Email Lists, Discussion, and Interaction by Steven D. Krause

Facebook

In light of earlier discussion, I thought some of you might be interested in this news blurb:

Thefacebook To Expand Social Network
by Gavin O'Malley
Depending upon their social networking prowess, college students should either be delighted or dismayed to learn that Thefacebook plans today to announce an expansion that will encompass every campus in the United States. Made possible by a $12.2 million investment from venture capital firm Accel Partners, the social networking site will expand its reach beyond 800 existing colleges and universities to all 1400 of the nation's four-year schools by the start of the fall term.

Test

Test...
http://www.bsu.edu/

Some more links

As the late early adopter, I thought I'd send a few links that might be interesting to our mixed audience:

Here's a very basic infor-abot sort of piece (with one of my fave titles):
http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/TESL-EJ/ej22/int.html

This blog is a rich resource for lots of other blogs--and Nick is one of my favorite people as well as being the Bedford St. Martin's Director of New Media (or some such title). Nick is also extremely accessible and available--I don't think he sleeps; he's always online!
http://ncarbone.blogspot.com/2004/06/blogs-and-teaching.html

This one was written by another friend
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2005/04/04/hochman

and the next day, this appeared
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2005/04/05/mclemee

I do think we should keep this blog going while Dom is away. . . when Caristi returns, he can jump in and we can continue this as a support piece for the 7 of us.
ccp

More "PedBlogs"

"To blog or not to blog, that is increasingly the question for those of us supporting our academic communities..."
Blogs: A Disruptive Technology Coming of Age?

Academics who blog and other good stuff...
The Year of the Blog: More Resources a part of The Year of the Blog: 2003.

Weblogs in Higher Education

Question: Are we all late adopters?
Have a good weekend...

Blogging Pedagogy

I googled a few sites that ought to be of interest to all of us because they deal with the general issue of blogs and pedagogy, rather than from a specific academic discipline. There's no need to reinvent the wheel, right?

Web Pedagogy Blog

ENG 360 Blog
OK, I said they wouldn't be discipline-specific, but if you read the text of this blog, it links to really cool other stuff, including Pedagogy Before Technology.

Pedagogy of Blogging in the Classroom
lots of these folks are English profs. Hmmm......

By Monday....

As I suggested at the conclusion of today's discussion, let's share some blogs in our disciplines that we can point our students to. Here are the ones I showed briefly:

http://blogcritics.org/
http://www.metafilter.com/
http://www.j-lab.org/coolstuff_blogs.html

See you Monday.

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