Rip, Mix, Learn - Blog as classroom, playground, mind trip
Rip, Mix, Learn (with background here) is the type of application of blogs that gets me excited. Darren is using blogs as part scavengern hunt, part organizing of learning and of course, his focus is on the remixing processes. Another word for inventiveness?
I'm looking for people who are looking at what the software can do for them, rather than conform to the earlier use patterns.
In other words, how are people being inventive with blogs (or name your other tool here)? And what happens? What happens when you introduce a new use to a habituated group? To a group of new-bees?
It will be interesting to watch Darren's experiment unfold.
Here are some other uses of blogs that I've seen:
* group history/notetaking platform for phone calls
* personal memory (posting notes to self, irrespective of external audience)
* game platform (tracking geocaching, etc.)
What other inventive uses have you seen or done?
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posted by Nancy White at 12:22 PM
4 Comments:
Nancy: I love it! I went directly to the playground.
Also, meant to add - the blog that writes about the atom bomb as if it were still in the 1940s - 20/20hindsight?
Beth pointed me to your blog. One that has always touched my heart about blogging is gettting children to learn how to write better. Here's an example: http://comstock.21publish.com
I think that there must be a ton of potential here. So long as that one can mitigate against predatory behavior on children (e.g., using monitored emails such as epals, intranets, qualified parents), I think that there must be a ton of part-time/after hours resources available to help teach other children, etc.
Thanks for the pointers, Beth and Steve. Steve, one area that really seems to be looking at blogs is education - both formal, informal, adults, children.
Do you think it is the ease in publishing that makes it an attractive tool?
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