Stephen Downes

An important discussion is happening in the educational bloggin community right now, summarized nicely by Seb Fiedler: ""So what are the things we do with personal Webpublishing that go beyond what we have done in formal educational settings before? What are the qualitative differences for your personal learning since you have started to spend some time putting your stuff out there?" because if we don't ask these questions... "we will see thousands of teachers and instructors applying Weblogs and Wikis and who knows what to "make" others do the same stuff they have made them do before." You'll find the bouncing back and forth between posts from four separate bloggers (Smith, Richardson, Fiedler, Farmer) frustrating, but the question is vital: where is the locus of the blogging phenomenon? In the students? Or in their instructors?