embedded blogging

embedded bloggingadrian miles

Wednesday, 22 August 12

80+ students individual blogs subscribe via RSS

skim read editorial posting why?


80+ students

One ‘course’ blog written by me.

Media and Professional Communication students.

Subject is compulsory for Media.

We investigate interactive online video as theory and practice.

A complex set of collateral outcomes involving network literacies are embedded.


individual blogs

No group blogs.

They are a continuing, personally designed and constructed discursive space.

A site for individual documentation, discussion and debate.

Internally hosted at RMIT.


subscribe via RSS

No group blogs.

They are a continuing, personally designed and constructed discursive space.

A site for individual documentation, discussion and debate.

Internally hosted at RMIT.


skim read

Laptop.

iPad.

iPhone.

Google Reader, Reeder, Feedler, IFTT.


editorial posting

Laptop.

iPad.

iPhone.

Google Reader, Reeder, Feedler,


why?

Students are intellectually and pedagogically conservative, so intend to make this strange for them.

Blogs as a creative open space, separate from ‘assessment’.

To encourage thinking out aloud, sharing, co–learning, reflection and experimentation.

A ‘thick descriptive’ portfolio of learning.

Rupture the ‘assessment’ economy.

Value contribution and participation as its own reward.


embedded blogging

Technology

group blogs

individual documentation

discursive space

google reader

editorial posting laptop

creative open space

assessment economy

network literacies