Keeping an education-related online diary
Posted 18/01/2005 under
education •
Incorporated Subversion has reprinted this article from a Pakistani newspaper about blogs in education entitled ‘Keeping an education-related online diary’
The question however is, what are educational blogs? How do we define a blog, (which is increasingly taken as something personal), as something educational and academic? The different winners of the awards had their own perception of what an educational blog should be. However, according to Mr Farmer: “There are three big areas of ‘educational’ blogs: those that focus on teaching and learning, discipline-specific blogs (in an academic context) and ’service’ area blogs for things like institutional technology, libraries etc.”