MT’s Web2.0 ideas

The genre of blog writing seems to run the spectrum from learning to express oneself on anything to forming thoughtful positions on current issues.  Brevity is the perceived standard.  Blog reading seems much like reading an editorial with lots of bullets.  Blog writing appears to be persuasive writing supported with facts and not necessarily committed to providing alternative points of view.  That is the task of responders. Blog reading and writing are forms that invite some “best practice” guidelines to be effective.  Donald Leu’s comments (Rationale for Educational Blogging) proposed blogging as the strategy necessary to exploit changing technology and this resonated with my admittedlynovice knowledge of the tool.  That student voices are essential to conversations on teaching and learning also seems to be common sense, but often ignored.  Blogging can facilitate learning by requiring one to cogently express ideas, analyze, infer, explain, find examples, and link to expanding views.