Barbara Ganley has long been one of my favorite edubloggers. Here’s the blogged version of a recent talk covering using blogs in the classroom and her world famous slow-blogging approach. She’s also talking about every edtechs favorite topic right now: is blogging over already? For me, no. But edublogging has been radically recontextualised by the exponential growth of social networking and social media sites.
edubloging: One College Professor’s Perspective
You can’t reads this blog entry from Barbara Ganley and be left with a…
I don’t think that blogging is “over” when it comes to school use. I do think that it will continue to evolve since there will more and more social networking applications that will be used. However, the blog still has the uniqueness of being outside of a social forum which gives one freedom to explore all kinds of issues. Social networking, for all it is doing, hasn’t reached a stage where issues are being discussed like they are on blogs. Considering that there are so few teachers who even know what they are, I’d say they will continue to be used within educational settings for some time.
Blogs are essentially websites, with some genre-specific technical and stylistic conventions framing the majority of them. So no, they’re always going to be pretty useful.
“Social networking, for all it is doing, hasn’t reached a stage where issues are being discussed like they are on blogs.” – I’d have to disagree there, since the winner of last years EduBlog Award for best individual blogger is actually housed within a social network site:
http://eduspaces.net/csessums/weblog/
Most SNs offer blogging tools of one kind or another – silo issues aside there’s no reason why they shouldn’t be supporting excellent bloggers, or just good writers.
Cheers!
Hi
I came here from Linkedin to ask you if you like to be connected with another librarian-cum-blogger.
My email is mt2222@yahoo.com.
Stay connected, and be without tensions 1.0
Best wishes, MT
Oops.
I forgot to tell you: visit my blog and see the post on: Blog As A Teaching Tool: http://akbani.blogspot.com/2006/05/blog-as-teaching-tool.html