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Tuesday, September 09, 2003
Blogs as Course Management Systems: Is their biggest advantage also their achille's heel?
Blogs as Course Management Systems: Is their biggest advantage also their achille's heel?
Lowe's discussion was prompted by John Kruper's thoughts on blogs as, at this point, inadequate as course management tools. While Kruper acknowledges the same arguments I've tried to articulate in defense of blogs rather than the commercial cms's such as Blackboard, he also notes that the more administrative aspects of course management are not available yet on blogs.
Hmmmmm, I'll admit to a personal aversion to class administration as something I find mundane and, well, rather unimportant, to my goals when planning a course, syllabus, etc. That may explain some early frustration that I sense from some of the students in the laptop section, even more so than in the more traditional section, of the course. Nonetheless, we meet regularly and discuss these issues. And, other than the commenting feature, I've used the blogs as personal web publishing rather than collaborative spaces to prevent the "free-for-all" feel of blogs that I both love and despise simultaneously. Still, some students seem to be wondering whether they should pay attention to the course blogs or the class lecture/discussion. Of course, I say "BOTH!" but that doesn't seem to be working.
We'll have to see how this plays out over the course of the semester.
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Lowe's discussion was prompted by John Kruper's thoughts on blogs as, at this point, inadequate as course management tools. While Kruper acknowledges the same arguments I've tried to articulate in defense of blogs rather than the commercial cms's such as Blackboard, he also notes that the more administrative aspects of course management are not available yet on blogs.
Hmmmmm, I'll admit to a personal aversion to class administration as something I find mundane and, well, rather unimportant, to my goals when planning a course, syllabus, etc. That may explain some early frustration that I sense from some of the students in the laptop section, even more so than in the more traditional section, of the course. Nonetheless, we meet regularly and discuss these issues. And, other than the commenting feature, I've used the blogs as personal web publishing rather than collaborative spaces to prevent the "free-for-all" feel of blogs that I both love and despise simultaneously. Still, some students seem to be wondering whether they should pay attention to the course blogs or the class lecture/discussion. Of course, I say "BOTH!" but that doesn't seem to be working.
We'll have to see how this plays out over the course of the semester.
