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Marica Ševelj | 3 July 2006

Weblogs as dynamic learning spaces. Marica Ševelj | 3 July 2006. Distance learning is perceived and experienced by many as a lonely way to learn. http://elgg.net/dtosh/weblog/398.html. Blogging geyser.

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Marica Ševelj | 3 July 2006

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  1. Weblogs as dynamic learning spaces Marica Ševelj | 3 July 2006

  2. Distance learning is perceived and experienced by many as a lonely way to learn.

  3. http://elgg.net/dtosh/weblog/398.html

  4. Blogging geyser This sudden growth was like a geyser: dramatic, unpredictable, and trending vertical. Henning (2005)

  5. http://marica.ako.net.nz

  6. Weblogs are as varied as their maintainers, and they are creating a generation of involved, impassioned citizens and articulate observant human beings. Rebecca Blood (2002)

  7. Six pillars of blogging • Publishable • Findable • Social • Viral • Syndicatable • Linkable Scoble & Israel (2006)

  8. Patti Digh (2005)

  9. Global audience

  10. … criticalthinking skills, writing skills and information literacy … chance toreflect … carry onwritingabout a topic over a sustained period of time, maybe alifetime … engage readers and audience in a sustained conversation … synthesisedisparate learning experiences and understand their collective relationship and relevance. This just seems to me to be closer to theway we learn outside of school, and I see those thingssorely lacking anywhere in traditional education. Richardson (2004)

  11. Kolb’s learning cycle

  12. The blogger’s brain … the learning cycle arises naturally from the structure of the brain. Zull (2002) The art of changing the brain

  13. We learn by both getting information from the outside through our concrete experience and by putting information back to the outside by our actions. We learn from the outside in, and from the inside out. Zull (2002)

  14. Kolb’s learning cycle revisited Outside Inside

  15. Blogging combines the best of solitary reflection and social interaction. Drs Fernette and Brock Eide (2005)

  16. Input-outcome model of reflection (Moon, 2004)

  17. vs

  18. "A LOT of people spend a lot more than $US3000 a year on their hobbies," James Farmer says, laughing. His hobby may be better described as a quasi-religious quest: he preaches a gospel of interactive learning. At his web portal, edublogs.org, teachers and students can set up free blogs using WordPress, an open-source tool. http://incsub.org/

  19. Five stage blogging process (Bartlett-Bragg, 2003)

  20. Their blogs soon developedbeyond digital ethnographers’ journalsinto a hybrid between a journal, academic publishing, storage space for links and site for academic discourse. Research tool Torill Mortensen & Jill Walker (2002)

  21. Challenges (or opportunities)

  22. Blogs are dynamic learning spaces. They can break down the isolation of distance learning through ever-expanding virtual learning communities.

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