Plenty of developments at Middlebury College's Blogging. There are plenty of developments at " Middlebury College's Blogging Central", please check these out.
What is of interest here are the varied uses of weblogs for educational purposes, suggesting that perhaps a great option offered by this tool is the ability to "home grow" the course--management of it as well--to suit the local environment, be this defined as the classroom or the institution or both.
This suggests a challenge, I'd argue, to course management tools. [Seblogging News]
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Web presence via weblog software. The background: I am an involved parent at Bryant Elementary, a public school in Seattle, Washington. The principal has chartered a team to create a new web presence for the school, as the current web site went badly stale (as did its predecessor). The default plan is likely to involve implementation of the new web presence as a traditional HTML site using standard desktop page-editing software and publishing processes. I fear this is a recipe for yet another dead Web site down the road.
Hence, the goal of this blog is to be a Socratic exploration of the pros and cons of a possible alternate approach. Namely, implementing the new Bryant web presence via weblog software.
Declaring my bias up front: I believe that for the needs of an elementary school web presence will be best met with systems that are extremely usable by the time-constrained and technology-challenged teachers and administrators. The blog model of automatic generation of presentation from easily-authored content is very appealing. The general organizational model of weblogging, with its focus on chronological news items, seems to fit both school-level and classroom-level communication needs. And, unlike say a corporate web site, there does not seem to be a compelling need for a public elementary school to create a highly-differentiated web presence. Thus I am inclined to favor the "school site as weblogs" solution.
However, as a blogging newbie I'm not yet personally convinced, much less able to convince others, that the information model and presentation needs of a school website are a good enough match with today's blogware tools. Nor on the real cost-benefit tradeoffs of blogware vs. traditional page/site design tools. Hence, the exploration. [Seblogging News]
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School Blog or Not. Hence, the goal of this blog is to be a Socratic exploration of the pros and cons of a possible alternate approach. Namely, implementing the new Bryant web presence via weblog software.
Very interesting read from a parent on a school tech committee trying to decide whether or not Web log as school website might not be a better answer. He imagines parents able to subscribe via rss to different weblogs within the school (imagine getting the news and assignments for each of your kids classes each day aggregated into one page or e-mail!), online discussions accross the school community and more.
I love finding thinking like this...his personal observations and thoughts through the Web log teach me about my own thinking. Where could you find this type of content pre-Blogger?Will Richardson refers to Bill Kearney's reflections on the pros and cons of using a Weblog format for a school Website. In Why Manila is more than Weblog software I have started to talk a bit about the reasons why Manila offers great flexibility for various educational applications. In my opinion, dynamic Webpublishing and a low cost CMS are a perfect fit for a school site. Sure, a Weblog like format can be build in (maybe on the homepage)... but in most cases it is probably only part of the overall design... [Seblogging News]
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School site review blog. I've created a school site review blog for deconstructing other school web sites. Purely my own opinionated views but I wanted to keep track of them. I think I'm now seeing some patterns and uncovering some best practices. Overall the best sites also are the sites with most prominent news - at least, I don't think I'm imagining this correlation.Bill Kearney shares more of his analysis of school Websites... [Seblogging News]
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