http://expository.wordpress.com/2006/08/08/questions-of-efficiency/ Class blog site for ENG105 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:56:15 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://expository.wordpress.com/2006/08/08/questions-of-efficiency/#comment-6 school starts monday! « Expos-i-story Fri, 25 Aug 2006 14:03:21 +0000 https://expository.wordpress.com/2006/08/08/questions-of-efficiency/#comment-6 [...] On that note…there have been a few questions / comments raised about our decision to use flock. Dave has more to say about this choice, as he is handling the technology end of things, but I would like to add to/reinforce his thoughts. It was both a technical/technology choice and a pedagogical one. One of my goals is to have students interacting with the web, finding news sources, assessing them, responding to them, quoting from them. Flock allows them to do this in a very direct way. I don’t want the web to be the thing we are all pushing our students away from for fear of plagiarism. Yes, it is easy to cut and paste, and yes, flock makes it easy to do so, but instead of instilling the “fear of god” (or fear of our policing efforts) in our students over utilizing internet sources, we can work together toward using them responsibly in an open way. I also think the simplicity of the RSS reader feature on flock will be great for my students’ use. (I plan to do a specific (short) lesson on how to read in this unique way–sorting through headlines and excerpts to distill relevant and useful information and then slowing down to read carefully and thoughtfully). I’m sure there are other great programs that allow for this combination of uses (blogging and RSS reader), and I’m welcome to suggestions (I know there are some already appearing on AcademHacK). Again, this is my first semester utilizing these tools and as with any initial run-through, it is, in part, and experiment. [...] [...] On that note…there have been a few questions / comments raised about our decision to use flock. Dave has more to say about this choice, as he is handling the technology end of things, but I would like to add to/reinforce his thoughts. It was both a technical/technology choice and a pedagogical one. One of my goals is to have students interacting with the web, finding news sources, assessing them, responding to them, quoting from them. Flock allows them to do this in a very direct way. I don’t want the web to be the thing we are all pushing our students away from for fear of plagiarism. Yes, it is easy to cut and paste, and yes, flock makes it easy to do so, but instead of instilling the “fear of god” (or fear of our policing efforts) in our students over utilizing internet sources, we can work together toward using them responsibly in an open way. I also think the simplicity of the RSS reader feature on flock will be great for my students’ use. (I plan to do a specific (short) lesson on how to read in this unique way–sorting through headlines and excerpts to distill relevant and useful information and then slowing down to read carefully and thoughtfully). I’m sure there are other great programs that allow for this combination of uses (blogging and RSS reader), and I’m welcome to suggestions (I know there are some already appearing on AcademHacK). Again, this is my first semester utilizing these tools and as with any initial run-through, it is, in part, and experiment. [...]

]]> http://expository.wordpress.com/2006/08/08/questions-of-efficiency/#comment-3 Charles Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:15:19 +0000 https://expository.wordpress.com/2006/08/08/questions-of-efficiency/#comment-3 I'll be looking forward to see how your class blogging works out, but I'm also curious about your choice of Flock. Flock will be limited to the computers on which its installed. Something like Bloglines, which combines both blog and RSS reader, can be accessed from any computer. Was there some special reason for choosing Flock and not something like Bloglines? I’ll be looking forward to see how your class blogging works out, but I’m also curious about your choice of Flock. Flock will be limited to the computers on which its installed. Something like Bloglines, which combines both blog and RSS reader, can be accessed from any computer. Was there some special reason for choosing Flock and not something like Bloglines?

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