http://edinsanity.com/2008/03/21/transparency-blogs-and-personal-learning-networks-pln/ “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Albert Einstein Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:57:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://edinsanity.com/2008/03/21/transparency-blogs-and-personal-learning-networks-pln/comment-page-1/#comment-2030 Matt-Mueller Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:22:16 +0000 http://edinsanity.wordpress.com/?p=67#comment-2030 Damn, that sound's so easy if you think about it. Damn, that sound’s so easy if you think about it.

]]> http://edinsanity.com/2008/03/21/transparency-blogs-and-personal-learning-networks-pln/comment-page-1/#comment-45 Justin Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:53:02 +0000 http://edinsanity.wordpress.com/?p=67#comment-45 Yeah, that article was silly. It seems to focus only on professors that have personal blogs, not professional blogs. It is one thing to make yourself a little personal on the web, heck, I have done it with some pictures of my family and the latest books I read and my sports affiliations, but I blog for mostly professional reasons in the same reason you do ... because I learn a lot by doing it and I bring a lot of what I learn into my classroom. It is one thing to say there was this current event 8 years ago with a yellowed newspaper clipping or a reference to a 30 year old story in a textbook, but it is something else to say just yesterday ago a teacher in Chicago taped her student to a chair and then be able to link to the newsreport on YouTube and 2-3 articles about it in the blog and 1-2 professional analysis of it. I think the article and mostly the professoriate are not really to the next stage yet which is ... okay, so I have this cool tool that I have figured out how to use by putting pictures of my camping trip up, but now how can I use that to improve my professional life, my teaching, my research, my relationship with students once they leave my classroom. That's the step that professors are figuring out right now and something the article does not really capture. Yeah, that article was silly. It seems to focus only on professors that have personal blogs, not professional blogs. It is one thing to make yourself a little personal on the web, heck, I have done it with some pictures of my family and the latest books I read and my sports affiliations, but I blog for mostly professional reasons in the same reason you do … because I learn a lot by doing it and I bring a lot of what I learn into my classroom. It is one thing to say there was this current event 8 years ago with a yellowed newspaper clipping or a reference to a 30 year old story in a textbook, but it is something else to say just yesterday ago a teacher in Chicago taped her student to a chair and then be able to link to the newsreport on YouTube and 2-3 articles about it in the blog and 1-2 professional analysis of it. I think the article and mostly the professoriate are not really to the next stage yet which is … okay, so I have this cool tool that I have figured out how to use by putting pictures of my camping trip up, but now how can I use that to improve my professional life, my teaching, my research, my relationship with students once they leave my classroom. That’s the step that professors are figuring out right now and something the article does not really capture.

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