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Blog as teaching tool
AcademHacK recently posted about using blogs for online classes rather than using more traditional online course tools like Blackboard or Sakai. The post, "Using the Web to help Students Develop Paper Topics," explains that
... most of what professors want to accomplish online for their classes is easily done by a blog. That's it no WebCT or Blackboard needed. A blog can handle making a syllabus accessible, updating assignments, providing links to outside information, and with a little creative effort, a good place to have students write.
The post covers some basic ways that a blog could be used to mimic online course management tools and some basic technical things to help facilitate this. Maybe this would work, maybe not, but certainly interesting to consider...
— michael | March 27, 2007 07:49 PM | Something to think about
