Brendan’s Learning 2.0 Project » Blogs: more than mere blah-b...

Based on my own experience of blogs, I used to think their content was usually pretty banal. In the past two weeks I have uncovered some truly remarkable blogs and posts that are anything but banal. Just take a look at David Truss’s post Two Wolves, from his reflective blog Pair-a-Dimes for your Thoughts. This post relates an old Cherokee parable (Two Wolves) to the theme of Remembrance Day and includes thoughts and reflections by David that truly took my breathe away. I stopped and thought, ‘this guy has a gift’. His thoughts are inspired, thought-provoking and very honest. The piece was quite long compared with some blog posts, but I found every word had value. I have read it several times. Definitely not banal. What struck me just as much, however, was the quality of the comments left by readers of this post. They too, without exception, had profound and thought-provoking ideas to share. I found myself becoming immersed, albeit as merely an observer, in a spellbinding conversation between David and his readers as I read down the page.

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In conclusion, blogs are so much more than what I at first thought. So what’s their application in the classroom and for my teaching? In terms of writing a blog, I see many applications for students. Even as a student-authored reflective class journal as we progress through the course.

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