Dave Pollard: THE BLOGGING PROCESS."A pretentious and presumptuous attempt to document what bloggers have learned, without any formal instruction, to do every day.
And then a description of what's needed to make blogs a medium for real conversation."
For some bloggers, just writing is enough. For most of us, though, we're looking to the blogosphere to provide us with useful and interesting information, education, entertainment and/or inspiration for our writing, and feedback, a critical audience, and help with the creative and publishing process. That process looks (to me at least) something like this:
Ton has a great post on how the genuinely revolutionary brand of knowledge management (KM) might only make its way into organizational culture somewhat covertly, in a bottom-up fashion. His starting point is an article titled "Exorcising monsters: the cultural domestication of new technologies", by technological philosopher Martijntje Smits. Ton says implementing KM-as-it-should-be might actually turn out to involve unlearning the term KM, as well as displacing cultural boundaries.
A must-read, which reminds me of a passage on culture change I blogged back in October, under the title: "Shift happens. One person at a time."
I've taught a class for two semesters in an online environment though, and I've been thrilled with the results. I think it has to do with our format. We don't follow the "teacher as signal student as receiver" model. As we planned our courses, we saw the mistakes being made by so many other online instructors who treated the Web as if it were merely another text book. And so when it came time to actually implement our courseware, we actively rejected the notion. [...]
But it was only a major paradigm shift for us, the instructors. It seems the students were only all too happy to work together, help each other out, and seek out information to share with the rest of the class. It was amazing. The collaboration and sense of community growth among the students (and the instructors — we were certainly involved after all, just not in the traditional way) was much greater than would be expected in a regular classroom setting. When it comes to online courses, we haven't looked back.
I'll second this! Phil's contributions are amazing. He's one of these guys - like Alf - who knows what's going on, but won't spend too much time talking about it and will instead get actual code running. We need more of that! What do you think? [] links to this post 7:45:56 AM
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