Blogging in our classes

Up until this point, we haven't even mentioned using Blogs to communicate with our class.

I'm a bit opinionated on this one: I reckon blogs are a great tool for learning, but it's no use trying to force people to blog themselves. The best thing we can do is model how we use them to learn... and we can only do this if we blog ourselves for our own personal benefit. It does take time... but it can be time well spent (see Gisela's Travels for an example of one learner who learned how to blog while on holidays!)

If you haven't had a chance to create a blog todate, you might want to get started this afternoon with Getting Started with Blogging in Education. But I'm hoping there will be a few active bloggers in our group so we can see a bit about Bloglines and how easy it is to add our students blogs to our class blog! (See the Current Participants list on the right-hand side of this page).

If we've still a bit of time, we can also take a look at a few other handy tools such as del.icio.us, GoogleCalendar, Librivox, Flickr or even Ubuntu Linux.