Facilitating Community Blogging Circles
Wendell Dryden, a community literacy educator and blogger, replied to a previous blog post, located online at http://me2u.athabascau.ca/elgg/glenngr4/weblog/1532.html Reading your post it occurred to me that “lurking” is what in other contexts we call “reading”. The complaint that learners are Continue reading Reading Blogs Actively – Not a Lurking Activity
Background These are reflections on my work online beginning the development of a personal learning/sharing circle, which consists of a group of learners who voluntarily interact and dialogue with another without the conventional framework of a course. For me, the Continue reading Reflections on Strategies for Cultivating a Sharing Circle
Stephen Downes wrote: “we know how to improve educational outcomes, but the solution – achieving some sort of income equity in society – is so distasteful to some people they’d do anything rather than see poor people become less poor.” Continue reading Making Literacy Training More Accessible
At TechTicker, the author, Mike Bogle, wrote about the challenge of educational change and his opening paragraph outlines the conundrum: Participatory culture is significant because of its capacity to connect people, facilitate dialogue and cultivate the growth of a free-flowing landscape. This Continue reading EduBlogging for Formal Institutions vs. EduBlogging for Lifelong Learning
Blogging is a different approach; the classroom is one space that blogging can occur for learners; the emphasis, however, needs to be to invite learners to step out of their well-worn shoes as students, and determine what they want to Continue reading Purposes for EduBlogging