WELCOME!

WELCOME!

I created this Google Blogger page in order to develop a single site in which members of the higher education community can share ideas, tools, opinions, the last news.

As you can see, I've already created a higher education news feed with the Chronicle and Inside Higher Ed daily updates, and I am hoping that with our creativity, technology skills, etc. that there will be much more on the way!

Friday, February 27, 2009

Breaking the Blogosphere Force Field

Here is an interesting link to an article in The Chronicle on blogging. I particularly took interest in the question of what problem is being solved by using technology in the classroom? More particularly I think we should be asking what learning outcomes are best served through the use of technology?

My stimulus for creating this blog was a classroom assignment and although other students who have been blogging for some time claim that this is actually a "fun" activity I am still a little skeptical only because I can see this being way too time consuming. Does assigning this in a class make this process less enjoyable or some how take away from the true meaning that can be found in blogging?