Creating a blog is a rather simple process.
However, deciding what to say knowing the whole world (potentially) could be reading and judging (possibly) what you say is another matter. However, it is the 21st century and our blog is long overdue. Yet, I wanted our blog to be more than just a reverse chronological order of diary entries and ramblings on about nothing...so...I created this blog for two reasons:
1. to critically examine blogs for teaching and learning in higher education
2. to 'reach' our faculty and engage them (hopefully) in scholarly discourse via this medium
So, to begin, some of my questions about blogs are: Do blogs have a role in higher education? If so, what is it? Who should use them? Why? and perhaps most importantly, How should they be constructed and used (pedagogy) to enrich the student learning experience in higher education?
On the flip side, are students missing anything from their learning experience, if profs choose not to blog?
You might have some other questions too. I hope you will post them. In the interim, you might find this a helpful article in context. Some of our faculty at MSVU began experimenting with this Web 2.0 technology for teaching undergraduate public relations classes in the Winter '07 term.
Ready to 'talk' about blogs for use in higher education? I thought so.
Over to you...
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
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