Facilitating Community Blogging Circles
Based on the podcast and written notes found on http://edublogging.posterous.com/ I am summarizing some main points of the use of edublogs by independent learners within private learning spaces. The first assumption I feel needs to be questioned is that learners Continue reading EduBlogging for Learning Partnerships
This exchange had taken place several years back, but I can draw ideas that contributed to the development of the edublogging framework. The breakdown of the differing bloggers roughly mirrored how I perceived the different aspects of self: private = essential; autonomous = synergistic; personal Continue reading On Humanism: A Dialogue
Is there a place for encouraging self-disclosure of this sort in an educational setting? Is formal education ready to allow for confessional disclosure of interactions between students and their instructors? How would full transparency change educational dialogue? There are Continue reading Confessional EduBlogging – Exploring Issues
Social interaction must involve inter-subjectivity, or joint co-construction and decision-making. Participants would share power and authority, but would be unequal only in their differing levels of understanding. Inter-subjectivity might involve interaction between the student and the instructor, or between learning Continue reading EduBlogs for Encouraging Intersubjectivity, Sharing, and Knowledge Co-Construction
I am a novice edublogger, and as such am a bit reluctant to put myself out there for more seasoned bloggers to read my ideas. Perhaps it is because of a bit of apprehension of how I will be received Continue reading Exploring EduBlogging