Posts Tagged ‘edublogging’
Byrne on edublogging
Posted by: ashleytan on: August 24, 2009
Every semester, I get my teacher trainees to learn how to edublog. In a very timely posting, Richard Byrne shares his thoughts on how edubloggers can contribute in at least three ways.
If I heard him correctly, he says that the roles edubloggers play are DJ (sharer of resources), preacher and philosopher. That’s a lot better [...]
Why blog?
Posted by: ashleytan on: July 31, 2009
Different people blog for different reasons.
I started blogging in March 2004, a few months before the birth of my son, as a record of what it was like to grow up. That’s right, I blogged as my son and I still do. I also maintain other blogs as the real me and each blog represents [...]
Slow blogging
Posted by: ashleytan on: January 21, 2009
Blogging is one way to slow down and reflect on life, love, or learning. So when I came across John Connell’s entry on slow blogging, I was intrigued.
Connell was talking about a type of blogging that ran counter to what he perceived as shallow, silly, and fast blogging, basically the type that largely fills the [...]
Podcast on edublogging
Posted by: ashleytan on: September 15, 2008
I took the opportunity to listen to yet another backlogged podcast yesterday. (As I did some window shopping, I shut the crowd out with my earphones!) I am glad that I did because this one focused on issues of integrating blogs with mainstream curricula.
I have been experiencing and mulling over some of the issues myself, [...]
(Un)Happy Teachers’ Day?
Posted by: ashleytan on: August 31, 2008
A blog subject like “Things I hate about teaching” is bound to catch the eye and set tongues and fingers a-wagging. It was posted on around Teachers’ Day no less.
This blog entry by a teacher was featured by stomp, but I don’t know how many 1) bothered to read everything, 2) understood what a teacher [...]
