Jennifer Kim, Undergraduate Duke Student
Has taken 4 classes with blogs, all in english
3 successful, 1 not
Why blogs don’t work
Blogs fall into a black hold
Blogs are not relevant to class and have no structure
There are unrealistic expectations
How blogs can work
Get people involved, RESPOND!
There is proper incentive
Provide an easy mechanism
Showed effective uses of blogs:
Weekly blog post with [...]
James Groom, University of Mary Washington (Keynote)
2 screens: one showing the Twitter feed, and the other with his PowerPoint
Not in the field of research, in the field of recon: throwing stuff against the wall and seeing what works.
UMW Blogs: An educational publishing platform
Came about because of Wordpress MU (WFU uses this) Free software, the cost [...]
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about access to information and the creation of knowledge. My thinking focuses on this:
The point of creating new knowledge is to help us understand our world better.
Lots of types of knowledge can be created.
Knowledge can be documented in many forms: articles, blog posts, videos, etc.
Knowledge can be created by [...]
I use GTD as my time management system of choice. When I’m diligent about it, I’m amazingly productive. When I loosely keep the principles in mind, I still get a ton of stuff done.
One GTD-inspired change in my communication habits has been to designate one hour a week to email discussion lists. [...]
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