Blogs
Jay Cross,
Learning Circuits,
Apr 23, 2002
The article is a straightforward description of how web logging - or blogging - meets education. As the author says, "By combining blogs and digital storytelling we get the next best thing, a virtual apprenticeship." To illustrate his point, the author cites elearningpost as an example. He writes, "Every weekday Maish links to four or five interesting articles.... Maish writes a brief paragraph to describe each link." Now I like elearningpost as much as the next person, but elearningpost breaks the rules the author just finished describing. "Blogs are personal and unfiltered. Real people, rather than corporate PR departments or ad agencies, write them." But elearningpost is NOT "written" in any sense of the word - there is no opinion, no voice. Nothing more than a paragraph cut and pasted from the article being linked. Elearningpost is a good example of an online resource, but it's a terrible example of a blog.
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