Half an Hour: Should All Learning Professionals be Blogging? - The Diigo Meta page

• 12 Oct 08
  

  paul lowe

  discusses cop and networked learning

  cop blogging blogs downes

  • It was pretty much a given that most if not all of the responses to this question, posted on the Learning Circuits blog, would be "no". So this is probably why Tony Karrer sent me an email asking whether I would contribute.
• 23 Oct 07
  

  michelemmartin

  • who offers several good reasons why people should blog:
    

    • blogging can organize and promote someone’s research
    • you can get feedback from people
    • postings to reduce the “distance” between us
    • active students can intensify their learning spiral
    • it forces you to do your homework
  • Blogs, wikis, lists, voting, rss feeds, timelines, photo sites, podcasts, vlogs, plogs, mashups, etc. let everyone find their own way of making meaning."
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  • • The idea of the latter is that learning occurs when the learner immerses him or herself in a community of pratice, learning by performing authentic tasks, learning by interacting with and becoming a member of the community.
      
      But this only works if the members of the community share. It only works if they are prepared to make talking about what they are doing a part of doing what they are doing.
    • Where does a busy professional find the time to blog (much less record video, create MySpace pages, create mashups, and the like)?
      
      The answer I have given when asked is to suggest that they replace offline in-secret activities with online and open activities.
    • For example, the group leaders and others in my organization call regular meetings at which they give us updates and other information. Why not just blog it as it comes up? They are more likely to cover more information, there is more space for others to respond, and they can skip the meeting!
    • What needs to happen is that the normal note-taking that happens in the meeting - whether by an official recorder or by attendees (or, ideally, both) becomes the blog. The process of having the meeting is the process of creating the post.
    • What can you know about a profcessional who doesn't blog his or her work? How do you know they are competent, that they have the respect of their peers, that they understand the issues, that they practice sound methodology, that they show consideration for their clients? You cannot know any of this without the openness blogging (or equivalent) provides. Which means, once a substantial number begin to share, there will be increasing pressure on all to share.
• 22 Oct 07
  

  Christy Tucker

  blog identity transparency

  • What can you know about a profcessional who doesn't blog his or her work? How do you know they are competent, that they have the respect of their peers, that they understand the issues, that they practice sound methodology, that they show consideration for their clients? You cannot know any of this without the openness blogging (or equivalent) provides. Which means, once a substantial number begin to share, there will be increasing pressure on all to share.
• 22 Oct 06
  

  Wesley Fryer

  A good case for expanding the ranks of professional bloggers

  blogging

• 05 Oct 06
  

  Ben Wilkoff

  ProfessionalDevelopmentIdeas from Delicious

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  Christy Tucker on 2007-10-22
  Stephen Downes' argument for blogging and professional transparency
  

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