Pedagogue blog

Interesting:

“Listening” is vital in an online environment because it establishes “real” responsiveness – not the coerciveness or ego-crush of an automated response generated through artificial intelligence.

Also, this post discusses the reality of blogs in the classroom. Both of these interesting links were found through random mind.

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Note to self: watch Wikimania for new bits about using wikis in an educational setting.

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Lessig’s guest blogger talks about freeing the curriculum by freeing the textbooks:

In the long run, it will be very difficult for proprietary textbook publishers to compete with freely licensed alternatives. An open project with dozens of professors adapting and refining a textbook on a particular subject will be a very difficult thing for a proprietary [...]

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The picture above is what I encounter in Wordpress MU whenever posting to this Edublogs-hosted site. Maybe it has something to do with this:

That appears at the bottom of each page in the back-end of this site. Work in progress…

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This post from Cole Camplese’s ADC (Apple Digital Campus) Exchange Blog notes: “I am starting to notice some nice traction in the use of blogs and podcasting in education.”
I can see podcasting of class sessions being extremely useful for the students, although as with any podcast, the size of the files involved becomes an issue. [...]

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Here’s an interesting post about RSS in Education, which links to an MSN article on the same. How do we incorporate RSS feed reading into a discussion of educating our students? What technologies do we recommend to our students for such things? Do we recommend services like Bloglines, or stick to programs like NetNewsWire? Which [...]

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Edublogs doesn’t currently allow users to edit the template, although this would appear to be on the way. Unfortunately this means that I cannot change the default links at the top of the main page, underneath the picture. I wonder how difficult it would be to change this (for someone running a WordPress MU installation [...]

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Edublogs is running on WordPress MU:

WordPress MU is multi-user version of the famous WordPress blogging application. It is ideal for people wanting to offer a hosted version of WordPress, but due to its complexity installation and maintainance is not supported in the same manner WordPress is. (You cannot get support on the WordPress support forums.)
Using [...]

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…I’ve decided to name this space, “Pedagogue blog.” Hopefully, I will be able to avoid being accused of pedantry.

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