No output without input, so here are the basics on blogging:
and the intro of a long text (attached) on blogging and education for all of us who went through a traditional education and therefore try to figure out other concepts of teaching and learning in mode05
http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/blogging_part_1.htm
http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/blogging_part_2.htm
"Blogging as a Dynamic, Transformative Medium in an American Liberal Arts Classroom"
by Barbara Ganley, Lecturer, Writing Program and English, Middlebury College
Abstract
Undergraduate students in a group-blogging literature seminar epitomize the writings of Pierre Lévy on collective intelligence (1997) and Stephen Johnson on emergence (2001) through the formation of a strong, resilient learning collaborative in which multi-media work naturally blends into research, personal reflection deepens scholarly insights, and the students see themselves as crucial participants in their education. This paper will demonstrate how students become the course, using the interface as a way to “take over†as their own teachers, creating an “Other†of the teacher in a unique synthesis of online and face-to-face work; they narrate a different course than expected and, if as Roland Barthes notes that “narrative is a hierarchy of instances,†the students’ narratives in this course suggest that they are indeed evacuating—challenging—even these post-modern categories.
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Wed, 2005-02-16 13:23
great, I really liked reading the text. especially, as I myself hesitate to include the weblogs into my daily dealing with the mode05 preparations, which is after all a process of knowledge production on the issue of dance/choreography education. The text as it brings together "field report" and theoretical background definitely helps to understand the potential of this tool. And how much sense it makes to use such things for mode05.
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