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Wednesday, 07 June 2006 |
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Tedra Osell, a professor of English literature at the University of Guelph tracks the blogging phenomena back to the 1700s when the likes of Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, and Samuel Johnson self-published one-page periodicals to be read aloud in coffee shops and public spaces. The styles varied but the overall theme provides good guidance to bloggers today looking to spice up their content:
"Either way, there's always a sense of humour," Osell said. "This isn't philosophy, isn't book writing. It's meant to be entertaining and needs to be like a newspaper today, needs to grab a reader."
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Friday, 19 May 2006 |
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Business advisory firm Deloitte predicts in a new report that a small contingent of elite academics will be lecturing to thousands via technology by 2010. It suggests that institutions and lesser known names will lose power as students get their academic feeds directly over internetworked connections using new learning technology for support.
E-learning is not a new thing but for anyone who has made use of these technologies in teaching knows they are fraught with bittersweet experiences. Students stop showing up for lectures but new frontiers of teaching and learning open up.
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Monday, 24 April 2006 |
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If you are an academic who fits a cozy techno-neophyte profile and you think all this blogging business is confusing enough, buckle your seatbelts because the next wave is nearly upon us. At a seminar last week faculty members at Wilfred Laurier University in Canada "looked into the crystal ball to explore what they might be dealing with when the next generation of students -- dubbed "neo-millennials" -- bursts onto the university scene."
"If universities are right, seven to 10 years from now, your Lucy, now in Grade 6, will be a technology force to be reckoned with when she visits a professor's office to discuss an assignment."
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