“If I had never heard of blogs before, what would be the top 5 reasons that you would give me to start blogging as an educator?” – I’ve been thinking about this a bit lately while browsing Will’s Why Weblogs and the comments on Nancy’s Why we blog with our classes… and thought I’d put together . . . → Read More: Top reasons for blogging in class
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Over the past year, a few of us on the TALO email group have been thinking about how Blogging might help governments – and specifically educational institutions – to connect more directly with the public… “talking with your customer”. Last week saw the public beta release of Microsoft’s latest browser: Internet Explorer 7, which has a significatly different User Interface (see A New Look for IE, on the Microsoft IE blog), a built in News Reader, and many other improvements. It’ll be interesting to see if this helps IE regain it’s 90% share of the web-browser . . . → Read More: IE7 and the future of the web Back in September I started thinking about how Blogging in the Public Sector could benefit government agencies, especially in the education sector. This was mainly brought about by Andy Budd’s presentation for the British Government: Weblogging in Public. It’s great to hear that Andy was invited back again to give a more expanded talk for people within the UK Government! Does anyone know if the Australian Government is consulting about similar ideas here? Will Richardson has been reflecting on teacher reactions at a blogging workshop he facilitated recently with a post Read/Write web is work!: They’re either saying “look at the amazing things that my students and I can do these days…what an opportunity” or they’re saying “Oh. My. Goodness. How in heck am I going to figure this out . . . → Read More: Read/Write web is work! |
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