via SiT - Greg Hanek on Blogging for engagement in the classroom, part 1:

"For sometime now, I've been pondering what role the use of blogs might have in the classroom. I have even made some half-attempts at writing down my thoughts about same, and sent a few emails about same. Now it's time to start going more public with some of my half-baked notions, and seeing what discourse might come about from it. For my (ir)regular readers, even if you aren't currently involved with the education field directly, I welcome (plead for) your input, since I figure you were involved with the education field in some way at some point, anyhow."

Nice timing Greg. A couple of months ago Don Ledingham and I submitted an outline proposal to Learning and Teaching Scotland about the use of weblogs to support Extreme Learning (XL) but after a month or so without hearing from them Don sent a reminder e-mail and suddenly people in LTSCotland started to wake up to our ideas. One person that responded was, in actual fact, an ex-student of mine from the early 80s who is now one of the senior management team in LTScotland. It was a very pleasant surprise to hear from this person. Hopefully, the trauma of having me as a lecturer will have worn off by now ;-) Judging from the warmth of the response it seem so.

II should have a month or so of relatively free time to devote to fleshing out the proposal. That's why Greg's article(s) on blogging in the classroom are well timed.