Creative Commons
This work by Steve Greenlaw is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Category Archives: Blogging as a Teaching and Research Tool
Hosting Another Faculty Conversation
About a month ago I mentioned that I was participating in our school’s new first year seminar program next year. In that post I asked for help designing a digital environment to support my seminar. We took the first step … Continue reading
Fascinating Discussion on Why People Blog or Not
I’ve been following a fascinating discussion on why people blog and why other’s have difficulty doing so. The place to start is Will Richardson’s initial post, but I also highly recommend Chris Sessums’ post as well as the comments there. … Continue reading
Martha Burtis on Education as Process
One of the key questions that keeping coming up in my exploration of University 2.0 is what is education, or more precisely, what is higher education? I know we’ve all considered that question, but from time to time there’s there’s … Continue reading
Barbara Ganley on Blogging and Time
When I first became interested in blogging, I realized how time intensive it could be. I asked Gardner, quite seriously, “How do you find the time?” He replied in typical Gardner fashion, “How can you not find the time?” Okay, … Continue reading
Blogging Your Dissertation
When I started blogging, among the first topics I explored was the nature of blogs. One of the more interesting applications I discovered, and which I wrote about was blogging as a way of drafting research results. Laura at Blogical … Continue reading
Preaching Again Without a License
Social software like blogs and wikis, and perhaps more importantly, rss feeds change the processes of academia. This includes administrative processes, as well as teaching and learning. [I wonder who’s more resistant to change: faculty or administrators & staff. I … Continue reading
UMW Bloggers
I learned of a new UMW blog yesterday. It makes me wonder how many more might be out there that I’m not aware of. Is there a way we can publicize the blogs on campus at least locally so that … Continue reading
Darcy’s Summary of the Vancouver Education Blogging Sessions
Very thoughtful reflections on blogging and it’s relation to Education (as in Lifelong Learning/Real School) from the sessions devoted to educational blogging at the recent 2006 Northern Voice Conference. Education is not limited to the classroom or even courses. Blogs … Continue reading
New Insight on Blogging as a Tool for Learning
Martha just posted a very thoughtful reflection about how blogging can enhance student learning. The crux of her argument was this: But more interesting to me … is the way in which blogging might have encouraged me to more thoroughly … Continue reading
Back in the Saddle Again
I went off the wagon–I knew it was possible, but in the glow of my initial adoption of the blogging lifestyle, I didn’t think it would happen to me. During the summer, I had virtually 40+ hours a week to … Continue reading