Mathemagenic

We are presenting on weblogs and learning in University of Utrecht in a few hours... You can access this post later at http://weblogintro.notlong.com

An overview:

Personal webpublishing refers to emerging technologies that enable people with very little technical knowledge to tap into the WWW as a medium for publication, social networking, and collaboration. One of these technologies, weblogs is increasingly used to support learning in different settings: from enabling self-organizing learning networks between professionals to providing infrastructure for organizing course materials and use as learning diaries and portfolios in educational settings. We will start our presentation from a "walkthrough" introduction of weblogs, demonstrate specific examples of weblog uses in educational settings and discuss impact of weblogs on learning.

People:

• Lilia Efimova - http://blog.mathemagenic.com
• Sebastian Fiedler - http://seblogging.cognitivearchitects.com
• Aaron Campbell - http://www.eastasiacenter.net/apcampbell

Useful links:

Examples of Aaron's work

• http://www.eastasiacenter.net/ - Weblog of the East Asia Center, Kyoto, with links to students who maintain weblogs there
• http://static.eastasiacenter.net/keishajohnson/fall2003/titletoc.htm - a student's collection of items as a "portfolio of learning"
• http://www.eastasiacenter.net/austindamiani/essays - another example of a portfolio presentation of work based on items that were created and published within the personal Webpublishing system Frontier/Manila
• http://www.eastasiacenter.net/johngrillo/journalentries - an "observation journal" of a student

more to be added soon...