Link from Kat
I looked at this and decided to scoop it up because I'm sure to want to return to it later. It talks about some of the theory behind blogging, some publications in that area and different uses for blogs.
posted by Nogbad at 10:43
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I found his account of work blogs interesting, as it described almost perfectly what can happen in an active FirstClass conference. One I'm currently running for around a hundred new OU tutors allows them to raise concerns, pool experience, consult "old hands", & several issues have surfaced that are being fed into the forthcoming face to face briefing.
Sophistpundit argues that: "[blogs] would be a far more effective and centralized manner to communicate than endless strings of e-mails and phone-calls which only a specific few have access to at any moment and which cannot be recorded". The same is true of FirstClass. This in turn raises interesting possibilities for a future VLE combining the best of FirstClass & blogging, doesn't it?
We have been using Sharepoint to provide collaborative working areas for a recent institutional validation and the ongoing subject validation of 40 + degree & sub-degree programmes (yes - we are changing partner HEI). We completed an institutional validation document comprising mapping to the QAA Codes of practice and 115 supplementary documents with input from 6 directorates in under 6 weeks - thanks to the portal developed by one of our number. No need for constant e-mailing of documents but the ability to store centrally, check out and edit, build discussion boards etc. Brilliant stuff.
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