A few bloggers (Glenn, Alwin, Duncan, ...) have posted recently about the possible medical/theraputic uses for blogs. There is a blog which gives us glimpses of how Duncan Murphy is progressing after a horrific auto accident. A Radio blog being kept by Henry Q Murphy has allowed friends and family members to keep abreast of the process, to celebrate the successes as part of a community, and to provide consolation for each other during the setbacks. Blogging definitely can be therapaputic for the folks around the patient, too.

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Referer 'ho that I am, my interest was piqued by the evidence of a visitor today from the Milton-Freeman district in Oregon, where they seem to be taking advantage of Manila. If you come back, would you be willing to publicly share a little of what is happening in your neighborhood?

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Will's proposed blogging program sounds exciting. I wonder if he might gain some ideas from SIUE's Senior Assessment, first mentioned near the bottom of this main SIUE assessment page?

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Very sharp readers may have noticed I snuck in a mention of one of the Classroom Assessment Techniques (Angelo and Cross, 1993, 2nd Ed.) in yesterday's portion of this series. Today, I decided to use the idea of CATs to continue providing examples of the possible uses of blogs. (Yes, Seb, these all could apply equally to using a dynamic Webpublishing system, like Manila. In fact, some might be better suited for such a system, rather than blogs. I'll leave it as an exercise to the readers to decide for themselves which might be better suited where.)

Today's list of possibilities was inspired by this marvelous Classroom Assessment Techniques resource. Y'all will have to make the leap from the description of the analog activity (many using file cards) to a digital version, but the chasm shouldn't be too wide...

• Directed paraphrasing
• Muddiest point
• The minute paper
• Self assessment
• Background knowledge probe
• Recall, summarize, question, comment, and connect
• Transfer and apply
• Guided essay

More information about CATs can be found at the following:

• http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/assess-1.htm
• http://www.indiana.edu/~teaching/sfcats.html
• http://www.psu.edu/celt/CATs.html
• http://www.fd.pdx.edu/workshops/cat/examples.html

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Continuing with the Britney meme, is this entry. Originally posted by Mark "I've switched" Frauenfelder...

Britney Exposed. Since someone complained that I posted something about Courtney Love, I decided to go all out with the celebrity stuff. The Britney Exposed site is one of the coolest things I've seen in a while. Link

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Those zany folks at Google do think of their users, all the time, and in so many small, but very important ways.

This is a testament to how they try to help all those folks who visit this site looking for those brinttey brittany britiny britnet buttney britney spears fakes...

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