The Blog of Proximal Development at: http://www.teachandlearn.ca/blog is written by Konrad Glogowski. He is a PhD candidate at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. He is researching the use of blogging communities in elementary education. The blog is “to vocalize some of my thoughts on this subject and comment on the impact that blogging and blogging communities have on my classroom and my students”.
Konrad’s posts are generally very interesting and he includes links to many other key posts and writings. I will edit this post and/or comment re: useful and interesting posts on Konrad’s blog.
Two that struck me immediately from a quick reading of current posts are How Not To Use Blogs in Education (July 27th, 2005) which links on to James Farmer’s list of “what not to do” when using blogs in education and Adopted Voices (July 25th, 2005) where he describes his students’ confusion when he introduced them to blogs. They immediately tried to understand what he was saying in terms of deadlines, assessment, how much to write, how are marks awarded and so on.
Something I will need to follow up extensively is information on student resistance to using blogs in education, what their expectaions are, how these can be modified, etc.
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