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CIT Showcase: Teaching with Blogs: Advice From a Student

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 [...]

Posted 24 April 2009 † lauren pressley § conferences § edtech ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , , ,

CIT Showcase: Fragmented Identities: A Domain of One’s Own

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 [...]

Posted 24 April 2009 † lauren pressley § conferences § edtech ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , , , , ,

Tri-IT at Elon

Today is the Tri-IT meeting, an informal information sharing opportunity for Triangle and Triad educational technology folks. I’ve only attended one in the past, so it’s good to come back.
The day kicked off with an introduction to the meeting and the folks at Elon. Then, as is tradition, we went around and gave campus updates [...]

Posted 25 March 2009 † lauren pressley § conferences § edtech ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: ,