::: XPLANA.COM ::: Exploring how we can learn and teach with technology

"Last week I did a quick survey of how the Internet and web publishing can completely change the way students write - the Internet gives students a real audience for their writing, it expands the content of their writing (images!), allowing them to link and be-linked-to, while promoting continual revision throughout the semester. Does Blackboard, a web-based course management system, take advantage of any of these features? It does not. "

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"

Will Blogs Grow Class Management Wings? - cyberdash:

"Weblogs, as many people know them, are not going to be subsitutes for course management systems."

cyberdash - cyberteacher cyberculture cyberlearner:

Taking the Portal Plunge :

" writing researcher Matt Barton has been integrating technology into his courses for a while, doing some great work with using both wikis and phpBB in his teaching. If I weren't so busy using weblogs, I'd be following in his footsteps investigating their pedagogical value, too :)"

phpBB.com :: Creating Communities

Matt Barton uses this open source bulletin board package...

mattbarton.net forums :: Home

Matt Barton uses a blog as a front page to a site that includes Wikis, forums, and much more...

Thoughts on Blogging by Will Richardson:

"To me, the process of blogging is, most of the time, an ongoing series of steps: 1. Find and read material that is relevant to your life. 2. Capture the essence of this relevant reading, give credit to its source, and synthesize those ideas into a piece of writing that advances a personal, perhaps greater understanding of that topic 3. Publish that writing for response and for perhaps pushing someone else's thinking on the subject. "