Reading through my referers I have just discovered that William Powell (from the American Society for Training and Development) took the time to review and present a selection of EduBlogging projects over at the CareerJournal (from the Wall Street Journal). Nice coverage ... and a good selection of sources... ;-)

Education-related Weblogs, especially those focusing on the corporate environment, are still a nascent community in the blogging and Web ring world. Most are less than two years old. But this small group of edubloggers, as they call themselves, is dealing with some serious issues in an informal way. Here's a selection of their blogs:

• Edublog Web Ring. If you've ever considered integrating a Weblog into one of your classes, this Webring's community of teachers, technologists, and librarians has invaluable advice on tap. It's moderated by Sarah Lohnes, a technical instruction and support specialist for the Center for Educational Technology at Middlebury College.

• Weblogg-ed. Weblogg-ed is maintained by Will Richardson, a high school teacher living in New Jersey. He describes it as "my place to collect ideas for Weblogs in the classroom, to ask questions to the teacher Weblogging community, and to reflect on my teaching." Richardson's blog is a clearinghouse for sites and issues relating to Weblogs in education.

• DV for Teachers. Created by Tim Merritt, this blog focuses on the utilization of digital video in education. Merritt works with digital video at the Instructional Technology Center in the College of Education at Georgia State University.

• Elearningpost. Elearningpost is a digest of daily links to articles and news stories on such topics as corporate learning, instructional design and knowledge management. The site includes special reports.

• Seblogging. Created by Sebastian Fiedler, a consultant on Web usability, information architecture, and educational design, this blog has a strong community of edubloggers, many of whom have their own Weblogs. Fiedler rants and trades thoughts with a host of contributors on Weblogs, CMSs, and dynamic Web publishing for learning and education.

• EdGames blog. EdGames is moderated by Bernie Dodge, a professor in the education technology department at San Diego State University. The EdGames blog covers the "musings and discoveries by the EDTEC 670 learning community." EDTEC 670 is a university course that covers exploratory learning through education and games.

I've only listed a handful of blogs here, but just by visiting those you'll enter a community made up of hundreds of inter-linked voices sounding out through the fog of the Web. Take the time to visit at least one. You might even feel compelled to contribute -- or start your own blog. [William Powell]

5:43:45 PM    

American dream...

U.S. Allies Vote to Cut Off North Korea Oil. South Korea, Japan and the European Union voted unanimously on Thursday to cut off oil shipments to North Korea until it takes action "to dismantle completely" its program to develop nuclear weapons. [New York Times: Business]

C'est pas grave, la Chine elle en a, du pétrole...

2:42:14 PM    

ESC Pau's radio weblog

xtof, je viens de voir damien, apparemment tout est ok et on va bientôt pouvoir commencer.

J'ai chopé de la bonne doc sur les CSS (ici et la), ce qui va me permettre d'arreter de bidouiller et de m'arracher les quelques cheveux qui me restent. Un gabarit ESC Pau devrait voir le jour avant la fin de la semaine prochaine.

Promis, je penserai aux parisiens ce week end à Argelès sur mer (near Perpignan..) !!

2:42:14 PM    

Middle School Portfolios in Chicago. Portfolios help teachers, kids alike learn about portfolios in a Chicago middle school from the Chicago Sun-Times. Link via ADEPT at the Chicago Teachers' Center a welcome collection of teacher voices to the world of weblogs. [Joe Luft]

12:42:30 PM    

Communication and conversation are among the keys to learning. As Peter Drucker often points out, we need knowledge workers who are skilled in problem-solving, collaboration and learning. Therefore, education must prepare workers for these environments.

Collaborative technologies have emerged to offer a way to familiarize learners with these new expectations and experiences. While current collaboration tools include e-mail, computer networks, whiteboards, bulletin board systems, chat lines and online presentation tools, a decade or two from now they could include extensive mentoring networks, collaboration effectiveness indices, collaborative learning portals, interplanetary chat networks and free-lance instructor exchange programs. [Curtis J. Bonk][via Sebastien Paquet]

Curtis J. Bonk talks about the future of collaborative tools. I agree with his emphasize on conversation and collaboration. Personal Webpublishing and Weblogging systems are an important step into this direction. It is not only about the consumption of polished "learning objects". If we want to support knowledge construction we need to enable conversational flows, feedback loops, discourse... Do you think that we could produce a series of learning objects that would encapsulate the nature of personal Webpublishing and Weblogging?

12:42:30 PM    

Feeling buried these days under a mound of work...new classes, teaching portfolios, tech committees and on and on. I sometimes wonder how I keep afloat, yet I don't think I know any other way. Haven't been able to do much reflecting here, and there is so much to reflect on. Instead, I'm building blogs and slogging through.

Four additions to the Will Blogs list...my new Secret Life of Bees site, the Parents' Online Book Club, the English Department Web log (which is pretty much a non-starter to this point) and my Media Lit class. Whew. [Will Richardson]

11:42:27 AM    

TACT !

Un pas de plus vers la communauté d'apprentissage. En quittant le travail ce soir, j'étais heureux ! Ça m'arrive souvent à ce moment de la journée... Non pas tellement que je sois de bonne humeur d'en avoir terminé, mais surtout, parce que je repasse les beaux moments de la journée. Parfois, c'est mon fils que je ramène de l'école qui m'entretient dans l'auto de ses bons coups, mais ce soir, il dort doucement, bercé par la balade des cahots et davantage repu que je ne puis l'être moi-même... C'est que la dernière rencontre de la journée était passionnante ! Mme Thérèse Laferrière et moi mettions la dernière main... [lire la suite chez Mario]

7:42:06 AM    

Courrier électronique vs agrégateur personnel de nouvelles par [Gilles en forme] ;-)

7:19:48 AM    

Argggghhh!I think I'm going to lose it if I hear one more person pontificate about eLearning. If you learn from a book is it bLearning? Is learning from a lecture lLearning? Learning by doing is dLearning? Newsflash! Learning is learning, no matter what tools you use. [Dan Mitchell]

Hey... it seems like there are more people suffering from this wonderful term "eLearning". Let me eWrite it down again ... here for your eEyes only... "eLearning" makes no sense whatsoever! ;-)
3:42:25 AM    

'The Personal Learning Planner' - responding to "...a need for feedback (for new teachers) to come from a diverse audience, yet preservice and induction programs sometimes have limited resources and structures that produce scant feedback to aspiring teachers. As a result, an aspiring teacher’s work evolves in isolation, perpetuating the general conditions of teaching present in most schools today. A Web-based professional network can help overcome isolation; but even more importantly, it can provide the future teacher with high quality information that might not otherwise be available."

And David asks the question of how to support 'thousands and thousands of such sites.' That's one obstacle. But what about the experience of the physical hallway - the prep period stroll, the cold coffee, the through-the-door, slightly shy peeking at a mentor dealing brilliantly with the kid who no one can deal with? The field calls it 'management,' but it's really heart. It's where teacher ed programs fail miserably. Apprenticeship, OJT, extended and supported, could change teacher ed better than any online tools. [Pat Delaney]

1:42:28 AM