In my recent search for blogs, I came across the following blog: http://www.ipfw.edu/dlearning/blogs/. This a blog of distance learning students and staff at Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne. There is a link to this blog on the main DL web site at http://www.ipfw.edu/dlearning/. I really liked how this blog presents a day in the life of some students as well as provides an opportunity for the director to introduce himself and encourage students to provide feedback. I located this blog as a result of a search in Yahoo! I tried using Technorati (http://www.technorati.com) but was unsuccessful in obtaining beneficial results with the search terms I was using. The distance learning blog that I found could be considered an effective use of blogs in education for the following reasons: it provides an opportunity for students and staff to learn more about one another, it provides an opportunity for individuals new to DL a chance to meet and “talk” with someone currently involved in DL, and it could serve as a vehicle students could use to communicate with one another outside of the “classroom” environment.
November 3, 2006 at 3:48 pm
[...] Christy mentions in her first blog post that she didn’t have much luck with Technorati. Did anyone else have the same experience? [...]
November 3, 2006 at 4:03 pm
[...] Is anyone confused about what trackbacking is? When it is working seamlessly, all one needs to do is provide a link back to the url of a particular post, and the referring blog post will show up in the comments of the blog being referred to. Case in point, if you look at Christy’s blog post’s comments, you will see two different comments. They are in fact not comments, but trackbacks. The first will take you back to the first reference I made to what she wrote, the second will refer to this post here. Can you think of how you could use this feature of blogging effectively? [...]