It wasn’t entirely what I was expecting when I followed the link, but the stuff covered makes perfect sense…

Whenever I talk to lecturers about blogging and other web technology, I tend to focus on suggesting they use the tools to actively participate in their field of study or some other subject they’re interested in, to acclimatise, my thinking being that you learn these particular technologies best when you understand how an invested or interested individual might use them, and my bias says you feel that way about stuff you’re either doing as part of your field of interest or obsession.

However, knowing how education and educators work, academics probably have WAY more to write about teaching than they do their field to begin with, and it’s also far easier for them to rationalise or justify spending precious time on a new technology if they can build it into their daily or teaching practice and see some concrete value or goals within their working life rather than abstract ones.

My way still feels “right” to me, but this way sounds way more likely to actually get people using blogs!

thanks

As I’ve been practising this sort of thing for years, there is now quite an interesting resource…

I’ve got a lot of respect for other peoples blogging activity. One person who blogs amazingly is Tony Hirst.