Rowland’s Blog about e-learning matters

I have been looking around for other peoples ideaa on the relative merits of blogs and discussion boards and have come up with the follwing so far. (It is copied from my Tiddlywiki about a project on formative assessment so I hope the formatting works)
Lee Lefever had some interesting ideas about this on his blog [...]

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We have now had two weeks using blogs on two of the modules I teach.
I am using blogs in two ways:

on my third year undergraduate module I have set up a module blog on which I post and the students comment. Most of the comments are in response to activities or are giving feedback about [...]

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I have just taken a look at the blog of proximal development and read an interesting blog about the impact on students of having a blog taken away. It also mentioned a piece of open source blog software that might be worth a look. [Though not if you are in France ]
I have also [...]

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I have taken a look at the Edublogs awards and might well have a go at voting if I can work out how to do it.
It would be interesting to know what the criteria for selection were. Many of the entries are so different from one another that it is difficult to work it out [...]

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I have just found the blog amalgamation software at suprglu. I am using it at the moment in experimental mode just to amalgamate some of my blogs. However I wonder whether it might be a useful tool to use with students in a module. If each student had a module blog which was amalgamated using [...]

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I have just come across James Farmer’s post on his weblog about his submission for ASCILITE 2005. Apart from being a very useful and interesting article in its own right it has some excellent links to further information about e-learning and blogging. I am creating a reference here so that I can go back a [...]

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I thought I might gather together some of the useful stuff I found out about at the Edublogs day in London yesterday. Some of this might be better put in the blogroll or somewhere else in the sidebar but if so I will move it later.
Here is a link to my page on bloglines, however [...]

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There was some really interesting stuff discussed at the edublogs session in london today.
The two things I found were especially useful was the opportunity to set up a blog (this one ) using wordpress. This allowed me to see what the possiblities were for authorship so that I can set up a range of [...]

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