Mathemagenic

Good news: our proposal for a simposia on weblogs and learning at EdMedia04 has been accepted. I'm looking forward: it's going to be a good crowd and lots of interesting conversations.

For the simposia I'm preparing a paper/presentation on learning from reading weblog, but I'm not happy with its title and abstract. I'll invent something better, but here is my plans so far:

• I'm curious to know what weblog reading does to us. I'm thinking about learning effects of reading weblogs, learning in a wide sense, close to changing.
• I don't like writing purely theorethical stuff, so I'm working on data collection instruments (thinking of  survey/interviews/something else). You can expect my begging for participation in a few weeks :)
• Hopefully, I can connect this study with research on implicit learning and lurking, and develop a better understanding of weblog networking and weblog apprenticeship.

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