[Year 12 IT Apps] edublogs

[Edwards, Russell T]

Andrew,

I may be ill-informed, as I have heard people saying they've done exactly as=
 you're aiming to do.

However, it is my understanding that on a blog, only the owner of the blog i=
s meant to be able to start new posts/entries.

A site where anyone can start new topics, and all such topics appear intermi=
ngled regardless of initiator, would be described as a web discussion forum.

A site where posts started by a given person only appear on that person's ow=
n page, would be described as a blog.

Furthermore, on a blog, the owner has rights to modify or delete comments wh=
ile the person who wrote the comment usually does not have this privilege. O=
n forums on the other hand, the thread-starter has no special privileges ove=
r "his" or "her" thread: people can only edit or delete their own posts, unl=
ess they are a designated (board-wide) moderator.

A lot of people seem to want to use blogs for things that are better suited=
 for discussion forums. My take on it in an educational context is that disc=
ussion forums are best for free discussion (which any student or the teacher=
 may initiate), while blogs are for 1) the teacher to put up topic informati=
on (on a class blog), 2) discussions that are always initiated topic-by-topi=
c by the teacher (on a class blog) or 3) for students to keep a journal or p=
ortfolio of their work (on their own individual blogs).

As I said, I may be ill-informed but that's my understanding of it. 

cheers

Russell
P.S. Apologies in advance for any crazy formatting... stuck on edumail web i=
nterface today.

-----Original Message-----
From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Andrew Grimshaw
Sent: Fri 2/23/2007 3:21 PM
To: Year 11 Information Technology Teachers' Mailing List; Year 7 - 10 Infor=
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 Mailing List
Subject: [Year 12 IT Apps] edublogs
 
Hi 

i have set a blog for my yr10 and yr11 class to use as a forum 

(i will also encourage the students to maintain their own blogs as well

i have been doing a test run with a couple of students. they have registered=
 and can add comments but cannot start new posts, etc. i presume this is lin=
ked to the fact that when i try to add them as a user edublogs cannot find t=
hem

i tried the discussion threads on edublogs but ended up as confused as when=
 i started!

can any1 help?

thx, andrew grimshaw
colac college


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