Are You Creating a Job or a Business?
Picture three would-be entrepreneurs, each signing up for a seminar on Starting Your Own Business.
· The first one thinks, “Great. I’d love to leave my job and work for myself. I’d rather work hard and be my own boss, even if it’s risky.”
· Another one smiles, as he imagines the endless possibility of being able to pursue his hobby as a business. “I could take the early retirement my company is offering, and make a little extra money doing…
What a Blast!
This last weekend I attended the BlogWorldExpo2008 in Las Vegas, and what a great trip. There was the infamous drive from Salt Lake City, UT to Las Vegas, NV which with a 4year old, a 2 year old, and a 3 month old, and a stinky dog was enough to make someone crazy. We did make it though, it took us 6 hours to drive down and only 3 stops. Luckily no speeding tickets, we drove fast but didn’t get caught. Whaoo!
The Opening Morning
Being the fact that I had never been to a Conference as…
Following on from how NOT to use blogs in education this post attempts to summarise this paper and add a few extra angles onto how you can use blogs effectively in education and invites your additional hints, tips, criticisms & wotnot.
You must incorporate blogs as key, task driven, elements of your course – This may sound obvious but simply providing blogs to learners and saying ‘Hey, use them however you want’ is an absolute guarantee of failure as all but 1 or 2 people will take you up on it. Significantly here that I’m not saying assessment… you…
Update: You can now find part II, how you SHOULD use blogs in education, here.
I thought I’d summarise a paper (Blogs @ Anywhere: High fidelity online communication) that I’m hoping to have accepted for ASCILITE 2005 here in two posts offering quick summaries of how I think you should & shouldn’t try to use blogs in education. If you’re into depth then you might prefer the paper, otherwise read on:
Never never approach blogs as discussion boards, listservs or learning management systems: Almost invariably the first thing people do when encountering new technologies is to try and get…
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