Creating a Personal Learning Network for Yourself and for Your Students

A Personal Learning Network or Personal Learning Environment is a term used to describe a way of organizing and accessing information that helps you do your work. It’s usually applied to those people who work in an information-rich environment where it’s important to keep up with the latest research and where one might be contributing [...]

Written on April 27, 2009 | Posted in blankenship,Program Item,workshop | 1 Comment

If Any Moron Can Write a Blog, Then All Blogs are Written by Morons, Right?

The title of my talk is one phrasing of the general strategy employed by many faculty (and increasingly, students) when it comes to approaching material on the open web. Faculty not only discourage, but often outright forbid the use of blogs, wikis, or other online resources that are not peer-reviewed. Doing so does a disservice [...]

Written on April 27, 2009 | Posted in blankenship,Plenary Presentation,Program Item | 3 Comments