One of the features of Sakai that our team was looking for in a new LMS is a blogging tool. However, it does give us the option of blogging within the system. We’re still using those tools for some courses, depending on the content and activities, but we’re starting to integrate this internal blog into our activities. Kylemore Abbey Garden I

What is Good Writing? Rubrics and Good Writing One of my favorite conversation topics is always looking at how school has changed from when I went through. When I was going through school, I often felt that my writing assignments were judged arbitrarily. He had various writing style requirements that slowly added up over the course of the semester. Teachers would give you a B with little or no explanation. I still believe that content was relatively unimportant.

Along with this there are so many nuggets of information that we should all be aware of (when writing and writing for blogs). Read and enjoy Arun’s presentation “How To Write An Awesome Blog Post” How To Write An Awesome Blog Post View The following presentation, from Arun Basil Lal, ticks so many boxes it hurts; content, visuals, style, concise, etc. View more presentations from Arun Basil Lal .

Someone emailed me this morning to ask how to deal with negative comments on your blog. There's a difference between commenters who engage in name-calling or clearly inflammatory rhetoric on your blog and those who simply disagree with what you say. Trolls are an unavoidable aspect of blogging and it's important to split them apart from your other commenters when it comes to thinking about responses. I sent her a response, but thought it might also be helpful to do a post. What is a Negative Comment? The first question we have to ask ourselves is what do we mean by a

Site menu: about | speaking | my stuff ed blogs | resources rss guide videos contact Connective Reading & Connective Writing 22 Apr 2009 08:50 am New Reading, New Writing A great essay by Steven Johnson in the Wall Street Journal this weekend “ How the E-Book Will Change the Way we Read and Write ” has me thinking hard once again about reading and writing skills and literacies as we move toward an even more digitally integrated world of texts and links. It immediately made me think of

Did you ever spend an hour writing a four or five word phrase or short instruction? Now that there’s a term for this type of writing and recognition of how important it is, we can all feel a little more normal. 8221; This assures potential users that their information will be safe and was definitely worth the 16 hours it took to write. During that time, you probably felt like an obsessive perfectionist—hunched over the computer trying to get it just right. I’m talking about microcopy , and it refers to the little instructions and phrases that we use in eLearning

Week 1: Blogs: Day 1 Blog is short for ‘Web Log.”  8221;  So many people have told me that they think blogs are only good for “verbal vomit.”  This is written on my blog.  Blogs are made by creating a series of ‘posts.’  8221;  Yes, that can be true, but that is not how WE are going to use them.  In fact, anyone who uses it correctly uses it for sharing and learning and conversation.

Includes social-networking sites, video-sharing sites, wikis, blogs, mashups and folksonomies. Looking at Table 1, you'll see that I’ve asterisked the bottom category; it's a testament to the evolution of web technologies over the six short years since Horton & Horton’s text was published, but a whole new category of authoring tools has emerged, so in my view it's justified to add this Read/Write Web (or Web 2.0) Tags: folksonomy blog wiki content development authoring tools podcast read/write web mashup elearning developmen E-Learning authoring tools are part of a larger organizational infrastructure and learning ecosystem which typically includes hardware, software, content delivery mechanisms, and processes that support the delivery and management of learning programs.

Very recently Rupa Rajagopalan wrote about how instructional design is a profession very similar to technical writing . While my thoughts resonate with a lot of what Rupa usually writes, I strongly believe that Instructional Design is less of a writing job and more of a consulting job. I've written earlier about how Instructional Designers need to leverage SME's better and the more I think about iterative design and development, writing increasingly Today is Teacher's Day -- as a coach, trainer and learning professional I feel really proud every day this year.

One thing I've really struggled with in past is how to get across the power of writing a blog as a tool that forces you to learning, especially to synthesize knowledge. In the past, I've used the analogy of the challenge during school of writing and how it forces you to really understand something. I've also talked about seeing my kids writing and how it shows important gaps. I'm preparing some future presentations and articles. But, somehow this doesn't really capture this effect.