Beta Blogging
A few notes about getting started:
I've started this blog as part of the e-moderating course at the University of Gloucestershire. The blog will be where I record my experiences using a variety of e-learning tools, and I hope it will also be a place where I continue to post learning- and teaching-related material and thoughts after this course has finished.
I am very keen on the use of new technologies to support and enhance learning at all levels.
I had no problems getting started with this blog. I have had an account with blogger.com since 2001, the only difference today was that I decided to create a new account rather than add a blog to my existing one, and was then signed in to the Blogger Beta system which is very slightly different to what I was used to. The "Compose" function is very slow though; I find it faster to compose in Notepad and then paste in my text.
I am a fan of wikis as well, but have some doubts about the range of their usefulness in educational contexts. Maybe I am just not imaginative enough? I think there is a narrow and specific range of tasks for which wikis could be really useful, as already evidenced by the use of Writeboard in this course. Collaborative projects should nowadays use wikis almost by default - it's a "no-brainer" in terms of functionality compared to group e-mails etc.
More later...
I've started this blog as part of the e-moderating course at the University of Gloucestershire. The blog will be where I record my experiences using a variety of e-learning tools, and I hope it will also be a place where I continue to post learning- and teaching-related material and thoughts after this course has finished.
I am very keen on the use of new technologies to support and enhance learning at all levels.
I had no problems getting started with this blog. I have had an account with blogger.com since 2001, the only difference today was that I decided to create a new account rather than add a blog to my existing one, and was then signed in to the Blogger Beta system which is very slightly different to what I was used to. The "Compose" function is very slow though; I find it faster to compose in Notepad and then paste in my text.
I am a fan of wikis as well, but have some doubts about the range of their usefulness in educational contexts. Maybe I am just not imaginative enough? I think there is a narrow and specific range of tasks for which wikis could be really useful, as already evidenced by the use of Writeboard in this course. Collaborative projects should nowadays use wikis almost by default - it's a "no-brainer" in terms of functionality compared to group e-mails etc.
More later...
Labels: e-learning, weblog, wiki
1 Comments:
Hi Francis
It is good to see you have set up your blog to be used as a journal of your experiences for this week and for the future. Your past experiences of online tools will be valuable for the exchange of information in Session 3.
John
By Johnnyhill, At November 13, 2006 4:05 PM
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