Ahhh, nothing better than using terrible French!

More to le point :o) Have just published my third (and last) bit on the potential of personal publishing in education over at Xplana...

Basic Summary: It's the pedagogy, stupid ;o)

It might seem glaringly obvious but it's an understanding that I've come to fairly slowly, but I do reckon I'm right!

I guess what PP really needs is for someone to subversilvely incorporate it into the mainstream... win them over from within... heh, that could be fun ;o)

Here are the three articles:

The Potential of Personal Publishing in Education I: What’s doing & who’s doing it?
The Potential of Personal Publishing in Education II: How’s it going & what’s working?
The Potential of Personal Publishing in Education III: Where to now?

I've learnt a hellofa lot along the way, thanks for all the thoughts!

4:20:08 PM    

Mmmmm... check this out!.. Stanford using wikis and weblogs "Several classes at Stanford have started relying on multimedia-intensive collaborative websites. A quick browse through the gallery and you will find classes that either rely on blogging or run entirely "wiki style" [Metafilter via Dale Pike]

11:34:36 AM    

Tom Hoffman says of Frontier/Manila:

"Sure, people like David Carter-Tod and others are doing good work on extending Frontier, but it is a dying platform. Regular weblog tools aren't designed for the kind of enterprise integration and complex roles needed for large scale deployments in schools"

and adds that:

"Now that Atsushi Shibata has ended the drought by writing COREBlog, it is a little easier to make the case for Zope as a large-scale weblogging platform. "

Which is interesting, not so much because I know 'owt about how Zope could work here but because you can't help but get the feeling that there's something about Frontier / Manila which, while making total sense to the initiated and weblogthoughtful, doesn't seem to catch the first time user... there's a logic behind it which works really really really well but that logic seems to need to be learned rather than building on the majority of peoples pre-existing logic on how a web-content / blogging tool could be used.

'Owever, Dan Mitchell (who does has a heck of a lot more experience regarding Manila) says"

"it is fairly easy to customize Frontier/Manila installations, yet allow the users easy control over their content. It is also very scalable: new users can do useful work with a minimum of training"

Which is interesting... apparently code for such developments such as Weblogs at Harvard is on the way soon (Yay! Thanks Dave :o) is on the way soon but I'd really like to be able to flex some of the underlying logic of Manila to make it, well, as simple as Radio. Perhaps a Manila 'light' radio-esque type of approach? [tanks to Weblogg-ed News for popping these together :o]

11:20:45 AM