A parting of the ways
Five Paces Originally uploaded by Charlotte Augusta I’m shutting up shop. My blog and I are parting ways. My primary intererest has shifted away from autonomous language-learning and teaching. I am still interested in teaching and learning, but not within the field of autonomy. Rather than adapt the blog, I’ll leave it here (for posterity, [...]
Making time
After tracking the amount of time I was spending online just reading posts in my Google Reader (even just scanning them), I decided to throw them all out, and give myself an extra hour per day. They’re fascinating, and most of them are still in my blogroll (sidebar). But I really need the extra time [...]
Blogging with students
This post follows on from my post Assessing student blogs. I created a blog entry and asked students to write their own blog entry using mine as a model. Here’s my model below. Any comments or suggestions as a model blog post are of course welcome. There are 6 points about this blog entry I [...]
Assessing student blogs
Searching for help with assessing student blogs took a long time. I first found Aaron’s summary on Dekita of Jill Walker’s list of what works and what does not. In only one class at the moment am I using blogs. I’m having students write in their own blogs about news articles they find on the [...]
Blogrolls and feeds
When I first started blogging, I used Bloglines as my aggregator, along with millions of other beginner bloggers. About 6 months ago, after Google bought Blogger, I started using Google Reader, and found it so user-friendly I abandoned Bloglines in a fit of mid-life-crisis fickleness. With Bloglines, I faithfully kept all my feeds, adding to [...]
How aggregate displays change user behavior
Here’s something that I thought might have valuable implications for teaching, particularly teaching using web2.0 tools (and particularly after reading Dan’s post about being engaging). Aggregate displays are everywhere, from the book ratings at Amazon.com to the most-emailed articles at the New York Times to the number of diggs at Digg.com. They’re a primary element [...]
Yahoo groups (2)
Yesterday brought up 2 other issues to consider when using Yahoo!Groups in class: firewalls and web-access. Everyone signed up (or I signed them up) ok. They got their welcome message from Yahoo!Groups and the one from me. But nothing after that. Messages they send to the group get stopped by the firewall. Everyone got a [...]
Yahoo groups: things to bear in mind
Last year I used Moodle as a repository for class-related materials and files, and for communication with students including their feedback on what we were doing. There were numerous, mostly trivial, problems, mostly technical. But the biggest problem was the large amount of time it took to manage. I have therefore decided not to use [...]
Digital natives?
(Graphic by Wesley Fryer on Flickr.) A lot has been written about youngsters these days as digital natives, i.e. people who grew up in digital environments, using digital devices, as opposed to “digital immigrants”, i.e. the older generation who grew up in a different age and have adopted these devices later in life. (Marc Prensky [...]
Blogging about blogging – learn from a pro
Darren Rowse is a professional blogger. Here he writes about how he various blogs grew and why. Some useful tips and info, even for me who isn’t and does not (as yet) aspire to be a professional blogger. Darren’s entry is short but sweet. Here are some sample: What you do the day after you [...]
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