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This blog was created in July 2003 in support of a project associated with the USCA Ubiquitous Campus Computing Grant. The blog was modified in April 2004 as part of USCA's 2004 Academic Technology Conference. If you would like to join the discussion, please contact Karl Fornes (karlf@usca.edu).
Friday, May 14, 2004
Email Blogging!
One of the nifty new features Blogger offers is the ability to email posts
to the blog. This should come in handy for the folks in the Writing Room
when I need to get in touch with people. I'll send the information to the
blog and copy it to the email address.
Cool, eh?
karl
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to the blog. This should come in handy for the folks in the Writing Room
when I need to get in touch with people. I'll send the information to the
blog and copy it to the email address.
Cool, eh?
karl
Tuesday, April 13, 2004
A Couple of Quotes
"Most campuses have simply bolted new technologies onto a fixed plant, a fixed faculty, and a fixed notion of classroom instruction."
The Center for Academic Transformation. "Problem Statement". The Roadmap to Redesign (R2R). Rensselear Polytechnic Institute. 13 April 2004..
"The extent to which a student gains the same pedagogical benefit from a printout of your Web resources as from the resources themselves is the extent to which you have done nothing of pedagogical value using the web."
Fraser, Alistair. "Colleges Should Tap the Pedagogical Potential of the World-Wide Web." The Chronicle of Higher Education. 8 Aug. 1999. B8.
The above quote came from a re-print from the author's web site.
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The Center for Academic Transformation. "Problem Statement". The Roadmap to Redesign (R2R). Rensselear Polytechnic Institute. 13 April 2004.
"The extent to which a student gains the same pedagogical benefit from a printout of your Web resources as from the resources themselves is the extent to which you have done nothing of pedagogical value using the web."
Fraser, Alistair. "Colleges Should Tap the Pedagogical Potential of the World-Wide Web." The Chronicle of Higher Education. 8 Aug. 1999. B8.
The above quote came from a re-print from the author's web site.
Blackboard, Student and Publishing on the Web
I thought I discussed Laura Gibbs' blog post about student publishing and Blackboard last semester, but a quick glance at the archives indicates that I was mistaken. Anyway, Gibbs does an excellent job pointing out the limitations of Blackboard as a teaching tool for those who want to use technology to "boldly go where no classroom has gone before."
On the other hand, as John Kruper points out in his blog, it's impossible to ignore what Blackboard can do in terms of the more administrative aspects of class management. Blackboard provides a consistent interface, grade management, assessment tools, etc. that, well, I know I can't do with a blog.
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On the other hand, as John Kruper points out in his blog, it's impossible to ignore what Blackboard can do in terms of the more administrative aspects of class management. Blackboard provides a consistent interface, grade management, assessment tools, etc. that, well, I know I can't do with a blog.
Perusing Free Blog Publishing
I decided to include some links to free blog publishing hosts. I had trouble creating accounts at LiveJournal and Blurty, but I understand that we are experiencing some intermittent trouble system-wide. I'll try again later. (I'm particularly interested in LiveJournal, because I think their service includes some features, like emailed comments, that might be particularly useful in a classroom setting.) I was able to set up a quick account at Xanga. In fact, Xanga's account set-up was remarkably easy to navigate. I'm not sure I like its user-interface, but, then again, I only spent about fifteen minutes playing with it.
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Monday, April 12, 2004
Blog Transition
For the past nine months or so this blog has served as a place to collect thoughts about my experience teaching AEGL 101 using laptop computers and wireless access. At that time, the title and description of the blog was as follows:
Laptop 101
"Some thoughts and ruminations about the USCA Student Laptop Pilot, especially the development of AEGL 101-26 in which all students will be assigned laptop computers and provided with on-campus wireless access."
Because that pilot project is over now, I have switched the goal of the blog to a developmental/reflective area for teaching and blogging. My first course of order will be to get things together for Friday's conference here on the USCA campus.
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Laptop 101
"Some thoughts and ruminations about the USCA Student Laptop Pilot, especially the development of AEGL 101-26 in which all students will be assigned laptop computers and provided with on-campus wireless access."
Because that pilot project is over now, I have switched the goal of the blog to a developmental/reflective area for teaching and blogging. My first course of order will be to get things together for Friday's conference here on the USCA campus.
A Definition of Blog
Here is Jill Walker's final definition of a web log for the Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory. Considering the audience, I am not surprised to see some of the genre discussion, but I'm not so sure blogs fit neatly (or at all) into the concept of a narrative.
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Friday, April 09, 2004
Blogging for Teaching and Learning
Virginia Montecino kindly shared her her presentation for faculty at George Mason with the blog list. It appears to be a nice outline for a lecture and captures some of the positive (and negative!) aspects of blogging in education.
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weeblog.com
This is Stephanie Holinka's weeblog. I like the design.
I think I'm gonna go ahead and spend time with Moveable Type ths summer and see what I can come up with.
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I think I'm gonna go ahead and spend time with Moveable Type ths summer and see what I can come up with.
Wednesday, April 07, 2004
Blogs as Course Management Systems: Is their biggest advantage also their achille's heel? (via Jerz's Literacy Weblog)
Blogs as Course Management Systems: Is their biggest advantage also their achille's heel? (via Jerz's Literacy Weblog)
Just a little more on the discussion of blogs vs. Blackboard.
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Just a little more on the discussion of blogs vs. Blackboard.
Monday, April 05, 2004
The Blogosphere: What's in It for Me? (An Introduction)
Dennis Jerz, of Seton Hill University, put together this presentation/introduction of blogging for faculty.
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opensourceCMS
Wow! I'm just reading Charlie Lowe's posts and posting 'em up here. Cool stuff.
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Do You Blog? Weblogs for Educators | Kairosnews
I've pilfered Kairosnews again for this collaborative book made possible by Randy Brown at Carving Code. Thanks to Charlie Lowe (again) for the "heads up."
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Weblogs by Teachers and Scholars in Composition, Rhetoric, and Literature | Kairosnews
Charlie Lowe compiled this list of web logs used in for comp., rhet. and lit.
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Am Lit Blog | Better Learning through Blogging
This is Bradley Bleck's blog for his English Literature class.
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Friday, April 02, 2004
Weblogs as a Personal Knowledge Publishing Tool for Scholars and Practitioners: Example Blogs
Here's a nice little list of blogs dedicated to reflection/scholarship on composition and rhetoric from Charlie Lowe at cyberdash.
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