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Created by Vidya Ananthanarayanan (Trinity University) on April 8, 2005

The title could just as easily be a comment on the fact that the weekend's almost here, but it's also about me blogging on a regular basis. This is an experiment to see if the last hour of a working week provides motivation to reflect on the week gone by - make that flown by. I am still grappling with the structure for my one day workshop on social software. To be more precise, with activities that will relay the benefits of using a wiki in the classroom environment. There seems to be a wealth of information available on the direct learning outcomes resulting from blogging, and Will Richardson's wonderful document on RSS is both an inspiration and aspiration. Relaying the pedagogical benefits of incorporating these two tools into their teaching techniques should be easy. Note the use of "should" ;-).

Wikis, now there I seem to run into a stumbling block, partly due to the fact that my personal experience with it has been in the context of project management, or idea collection and collation. So yes, a wikipedia-like resource for the course is an outcome. What other ways can faculty use this tools and what kind of learning outcomes can they establish with it? Points to ponder over the weekend. Of course, I'm also going to be avidly checking for any comments from my fellow bloggers out there.

The iTalk finally arrived and I'm excited about finally getting to play with podcasting. There's some wonderful resources out there for those of us green behind the ears, and I'm also hoping to tap into the "experts" at NLII to help me with this. Excited about demonstrating it at my workshop, as well as it applications for my faculty. More points to ponder!

To wrap it up, it appears the WYSIWYG editor does not incorporate a spellchecker - or am I missing something?

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		About time! Created by Vidya Ananthanarayanan (Trinity University) on April 8, 2005 The title could just as easily be a comment on the fact that the weekend's almost here, but it's also about me blogging on a regular basis. This is an experiment to see if the last hour of a working week provides motivation to reflect on the week gone by - make that flown by. I am still grappling with the structure for my one day workshop on social software. To be more precise, with activities that will relay the benefits of using a wiki in the classroom environment. There seems to be a wealth of information available on the direct learning outcomes resulting from blogging, and Will Richardson's wonderful document on RSS is both an inspiration and aspiration. Relaying the pedagogical benefits of incorporating these two tools into their teaching techniques should be easy. Note the use of "should" ;-). Wikis, now there I seem to run into a stumbling block, partly due to the fact that my personal experience with it has been in the context of project management, or idea collection and collation. So yes, a wikipedia-like resource for the course is an outcome. What other ways can faculty use this tools and what kind of learning outcomes can they establish with it? Points to ponder over the weekend. Of course, I'm also going to be avidly checking for any comments from my fellow bloggers out there. The iTalk finally arrived and I'm excited about finally getting to play with podcasting. There's some wonderful resources out there for those of us green behind the ears, and I'm also hoping to tap into the "experts" at NLII to help me with this. Excited about demonstrating it at my workshop, as well as it applications for my faculty. More points to ponder! To wrap it up, it appears the WYSIWYG editor does not incorporate a spellchecker - or am I missing something? Events Vidya's blog Login or register to post comments 3278 reads Re: About time! Submitted by Matt Pasiewicz (EDUCAUSE) on April 11, 2005 - 1:23pm. No spell check yet, but that might be an enhancement in our next upgrade of the system. Cheers ... Login or register to post comments
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