Comments on: The Future of Education is in the Blogs http://www.blogherald.com/2007/03/02/the-future-of-education-is-in-the-blogs/ The leading source of news covering social media and the blogosphere. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:53:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mark’s Daily Apple » Blog Archive » A Monday Moment http://www.blogherald.com/2007/03/02/the-future-of-education-is-in-the-blogs/comment-page-1/#comment-179101 Mark’s Daily Apple » Blog Archive » A Monday Moment Thu, 05 Apr 2007 21:22:37 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/03/02/the-future-of-education-is-in-the-blogs/#comment-179101 [...] Critics of the technological revolution point to the negatives, such as isolation, loss of subtlety and decency in communication, and the big one: lack of credibility. (Let’s be honest: that is a legitimate problem for everyone: journalists edited by media conglomerates owned by a few guys - credibility?) To each his own. [...] [...] Critics of the technological revolution point to the negatives, such as isolation, loss of subtlety and decency in communication, and the big one: lack of credibility. (Let’s be honest: that is a legitimate problem for everyone: journalists edited by media conglomerates owned by a few guys – credibility?) To each his own. [...]

]]> By: 21Classes multi-user blogging application for the classroom at The Blog Herald http://www.blogherald.com/2007/03/02/the-future-of-education-is-in-the-blogs/comment-page-1/#comment-176620 21Classes multi-user blogging application for the classroom at The Blog Herald Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:47:40 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/03/02/the-future-of-education-is-in-the-blogs/#comment-176620 [...] This isn’t the only solution aimed at connecting students and teachers together using blogging to enhance learning, as Lorelle discussed in her article the future of education is in the blogs. [...] [...] This isn’t the only solution aimed at connecting students and teachers together using blogging to enhance learning, as Lorelle discussed in her article the future of education is in the blogs. [...]

]]> By: Lorelle VanFossen http://www.blogherald.com/2007/03/02/the-future-of-education-is-in-the-blogs/comment-page-1/#comment-171153 Lorelle VanFossen Fri, 02 Mar 2007 18:27:42 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/03/02/the-future-of-education-is-in-the-blogs/#comment-171153 The issue of plagiarism as students who blog get tagged by teachers who are not paying attention to the real sources of the content will be one that need addressing soon. Good point. Clear credit and citation is critically important. As for searching on the net and finding your own stuff first, that's a compliment, but it is a pain. When we started researching our family history, we had good luck finding information on the web, but as soon as I started publishing our findings, our family history blog started showing up in the first 3, 4, 10 listings as time went on. It is now harder for us to exclude our site in the searches. I totally understand. The issue of plagiarism as students who blog get tagged by teachers who are not paying attention to the real sources of the content will be one that need addressing soon. Good point.

Clear credit and citation is critically important.

As for searching on the net and finding your own stuff first, that’s a compliment, but it is a pain. When we started researching our family history, we had good luck finding information on the web, but as soon as I started publishing our findings, our family history blog started showing up in the first 3, 4, 10 listings as time went on. It is now harder for us to exclude our site in the searches. I totally understand.

]]> By: Derek Burress http://www.blogherald.com/2007/03/02/the-future-of-education-is-in-the-blogs/comment-page-1/#comment-171134 Derek Burress Fri, 02 Mar 2007 17:06:34 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/03/02/the-future-of-education-is-in-the-blogs/#comment-171134 Now that I have gone back to school, I turned my real estate related blog into a history type blog where I am posting all of my research papers. I like blogging and posting my work on my blog however, everytime I turn in a new paper, I get flagged for plagrism as a copy of my work on my blog shows up. I am doing a research paper on a massacre that took place during the Vietnam war. I am posting a little bit at a time and when I now go back and try to located additional information for the paper, my site is the first to show up so it makes it hard at times to find additional resources. Also with all the wordpress updates, some of the plugins I have experimented with to include academic citations no longer works so that is another issue for me as I am always having to go back and add the citations since the plugins in which I was using no longer works. Now that I have gone back to school, I turned my real estate related blog into a history type blog where I am posting all of my research papers. I like blogging and posting my work on my blog however, everytime I turn in a new paper, I get flagged for plagrism as a copy of my work on my blog shows up. I am doing a research paper on a massacre that took place during the Vietnam war. I am posting a little bit at a time and when I now go back and try to located additional information for the paper, my site is the first to show up so it makes it hard at times to find additional resources. Also with all the wordpress updates, some of the plugins I have experimented with to include academic citations no longer works so that is another issue for me as I am always having to go back and add the citations since the plugins in which I was using no longer works.

]]> By: James Farmer http://www.blogherald.com/2007/03/02/the-future-of-education-is-in-the-blogs/comment-page-1/#comment-171090 James Farmer Fri, 02 Mar 2007 13:43:22 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/03/02/the-future-of-education-is-in-the-blogs/#comment-171090 Hey Lorelle, Thanks for the nice comment - we're not just aiming to link people together but also to free them from the stranglehold of backward transmissive edu technologies that dominate most learning organisations, like http://blackboard.com It's actually pretty full on stuff - online education needs to be about the individuals not the 'discussion' board and about empowerment and conversation rather than posting .pdfs. Cheers, James Hey Lorelle,

Thanks for the nice comment – we’re not just aiming to link people together but also to free them from the stranglehold of backward transmissive edu technologies that dominate most learning organisations, like http://blackboard.com

It’s actually pretty full on stuff – online education needs to be about the individuals not the ‘discussion’ board and about empowerment and conversation rather than posting .pdfs.

Cheers, James

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