Thanks for the feedback... all who have fed back :o)
Been planning the implementation of out new online course today and toilling over how I use blogs in this. Basically, the game is that each student sets up a blog (using blogger.com) which they then use to:
-Keep a diary of their experiences (i.e. in Australia - cultural reflection & even communicating with folks back home)
-Complete tasks set by their teacher & multimedia courseware
-Read each others & thus empathise with various experiences, thrill to each others peculiarities etc.
-Do whatever they want
Now, I'm not sure if the idea of the blog as a community tool fits so well here, I mean, they all spend 20 hrs a week together f2f... what's the point in blogging. Wonder if there's a 'contact-line' which kinda invalidates a lot of online community stuff... I always figured this could prove a problem with schools as well?
This time though I think I'm going to get the teachers to keep a blog. Now they already use the LMS and the 'Announcements' section there is a bit similar to a blog but it 'aint interactive, and is far more difficult to setup. I remember seeing some reaklly cool teacher blogs but can't remember where right now... I think there's a good esl one somewhere and the british school of amsterdam seems to be getting some good stuff together.
Sod an LCMS incorporating blogs... with the ampount of open source stuff out there now, why can't blogs incorporate LCMSs???
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