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Rhizomatic Blogging

Dave Cormier’s post in his blog on rhizomes and blogging makes an excellent point when he stated that “the number of self-selected, personally empowered bloggers will be overwhelmed by those who are being told to blog.” There is going to be a need to place private blogs within walled gardens, enabling a public and private…

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Edublogging: A Tool for Fostering Transformative Learning

Providing learners with choices whether to post just to oneself, one’s instructor, to a small group of colleagues, or to the public, is crucial for encouragin learners to draw on intrinsic motivators. Learners new to blogging require a safe writing space, a sanctuary, to begin one’s moodlings, and then progress deliberately through an ever-widening sphere…

Reflections on Practice: Commenting

One important rule of thumb we can pass on to other edubloggers is to comment to others’ posts with ideas you are comfortable with as-is, without the option of them being edited or deleted in future. Emotionally charged content, rants, and drafts should be posted in one’s own blogs, with links to the posts that inspired…

Discussion Meme – Reflecting on EduBlogging

I would like to invite everyone to reflect on your own blogging experience this semester. Here are some guiding questions. 1. What expectations did you have for yourself, your peers, and your professor when you were asked to engage in blogging? 2. What have been your motivations for blogging at the beginning? How had these…