Mark Bernstein, Phil Wolff, Nathan Edelman and Pat are a part of a panel on the importance of Web logs with writing, and it’s spurring some pretty good threads dealing with the issues of implementation, privacy, plagiarism, etc. One obvious issue that I’m noticing is the difference between personal blogging and educational blogging, especially on the K-12 level. A lot of us use Web logs with our students, but how many of us really have students that are “blogging” in the essential sense? In fact, the question may even be can our students really “blog” at all given the limitations imposed by school districts and the fears of teachers and administrators? I’m not discounting the worth of using Web logs to teach writing (and other things), but I guess the distinction to remember is that we’re really not teaching blogging. My issue is that I’d love to teach blogging…
Mark Bernstein thinks that blogging is going to evolve in to something very different from what it is now: “This is the way we did it for a couple of years when we didn’t have a clue.”
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