We had an illuminating discussion of the purposes of blogs vs the class wiki - they were confused about what they could or couldn't post on the wiki - so very few people had posted anything?! I then created a Community Portal page so that we could all post our hints & tips for modifying blogs and creating WebQuests. Some students had come up with very useful tips which have now been posted - yay class! :-)
What became clear to me for future offerings of this unit is the need for some form of instant messaging (a push technology rather than a pull form) or maybe even a class-wide sms-ing system to notify everyone about reminders. This would help keep everyone on track as well as serve to notify everyone when new information was posted on any of our venues - I could use it as the default & then the more self-directed ones (or people who have been organised enough to set up automatic notification of some form) could opt out if they wish ... something for me to think further about ...
posted by dlh_downunder @ 5:47 AM
1 Comments:
ditto here...
it would be really beneficial if everyone gets notified when someone adds something online (eg. blogs, wiki etc, discussion forum etc.) so we can all respond as appropriate. personally, i found i don't have the time to really go through each of the student's blogs to see if they added something on it - so getting some kind of notification would really, really help :)
i know of this another blog from Friendster (Friendster.com) which lets you know when someone adds something new on their Blogs by sending you an e-mail. perhaps we could adapt something like this for the next class in semester 2??
cheers :)
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