peregrinatio curiosa johannae in eruditionem

These guidelines cover points to raise with students when using blogs in a classroom context. They are adapted from Carie Windham

Windham, Carie (2007) Reflecting, writing and responding: reasons students blog ELI Paper No. 2 2007

1. Privacy.
2. Create rules
3. Don’t assume prior knowledge of blogging, posting, importing images, importing links etc.
4. Be realistic about how often students need to contribute to the class blog.
5. Work with the class to decide on grammar, spelling, abbreviations.
6. Establish comment rules, eg comments must be signed.
7. Make the blog relevant.
8. What can you do to encourage student participation?
9. Let the blog evolve.

First comment on a post from a random person

Well the randomness of Web 2.0 technology and the www does work. I got excited on 17 October 2007 when I received my first ever comment on a post of mine on the 23 things blog, see

Paul Johnson, the author of An email survival guide (See http://www.survive-email.com/tipsforEmail.html ) said
“…Well it just goes to show how the WWW really does work wonders. Melbourne is about as far away from London UK as you can get!! …I found your web by doing a general google search under the book title. It helps me see where the book is ‘popping up’. I will look at your links – your work sounds very interesting. To be honest have sneaked a view of the blog. Purple hair – fantastic, if only was as bold. I would struggle with colour too trying to mix and match brown with a tinge of grey….. Anyway thanks for responding to me blog entry. It’s great to get feedback and visit the survive-email.com site if you have the time and leave some comments if you can, especially from Australia!!”