Monday, July 21, 2003

Blogging as a Course Management Tool This article by John Baggaley is from the July/August issue of The Technology Source. "'Blogging' is a rather inadequate term for this educational use of Web syndication technology, which partially evolved from the diaries or 'weblogs' generated with instant publishing methods. It would be useful to substitute other terms for 'blog' and 'blogging' in the context of online course production; for as more educational researchers discover the valuable empirical data contained in Web server log files, confusion between weblogs and server logs is likely to result." "Numerous instant publishing services have become available since Blogger was launched. As content management systems continue to evolve, the CDE and Athabasca University in general are likely to move away from the otherwise efficient services of Blogger toward completely in-house solutions. As they do so, an increasing number of faculty members will embrace the blogging philosophy, and, as Davies (2003) has indicated, the contents of instant publishing will gain academic credibility. Meanwhile, all hail to Blogger for pointing online educational publishing in the right direction." JH _____ 7:57:20 AM    COMMENT []