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There are so many interesting thoughts popping up, I am finding it difficult to stay on task. Therefore, in my professorial mode, I am reminding myself that our charge in this experiment is to consider:
"If blog entries are viewed as discreet learning objects, if you write each blog entry in that manner, how then does your blog, with its modularized content, enrich your personal knowledge management schema?"
Perhaps blogs are limited in their "textness" that challenges the less techie of us to integrate other media that might appeal to a wider population. Some folks see blogs as a part of an information ecology but that seems so narrow.. learning is about more than Information acquisition, we but knowledge about ourselves, others, as well as information. I f we see blogs as one part of an ecology, how does a blog sustain the ecological system? I sense from the blogheads I know that blogs are the ecology, not just a part of it.
Blogs seem inherently about ourselves and what we think or what others think... they are about the individual ( see Technorati for a truly narcistic tool) and group blogs seem like an attempt to do more than self-reflect. Is a group blog a self-organizing social system? If I write this entry as a learning object, I must need to (in my mind, whether you agree or not) (a) have an objective in mind, (b) do something remarkable enough that will trigger learning in you, and (c) see some evidence that learning has occurred.
A quick search for group blogs may reveal what 'group' suggests to those who participate in them - I wonder if you see the information ecology metaphor at work in the following group blogs:
I do think that Scott Leslie's attempt to illustrate the type and nature of educational blogs (are these closer to learning objects?) is a nice way to start thinking about the nature of blogs... do we want to make them into something that is against their nature?
"If blog entries are viewed as discreet learning objects, if you write each blog entry in that manner, how then does your blog, with its modularized content, enrich your personal knowledge management schema?"
Perhaps blogs are limited in their "textness" that challenges the less techie of us to integrate other media that might appeal to a wider population. Some folks see blogs as a part of an information ecology but that seems so narrow.. learning is about more than Information acquisition, we but knowledge about ourselves, others, as well as information. I f we see blogs as one part of an ecology, how does a blog sustain the ecological system? I sense from the blogheads I know that blogs are the ecology, not just a part of it.
Blogs seem inherently about ourselves and what we think or what others think... they are about the individual ( see Technorati for a truly narcistic tool) and group blogs seem like an attempt to do more than self-reflect. Is a group blog a self-organizing social system? If I write this entry as a learning object, I must need to (in my mind, whether you agree or not) (a) have an objective in mind, (b) do something remarkable enough that will trigger learning in you, and (c) see some evidence that learning has occurred.
A quick search for group blogs may reveal what 'group' suggests to those who participate in them - I wonder if you see the information ecology metaphor at work in the following group blogs:
I do think that Scott Leslie's attempt to illustrate the type and nature of educational blogs (are these closer to learning objects?) is a nice way to start thinking about the nature of blogs... do we want to make them into something that is against their nature?
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