Some inputs from BlogTalk 2008:
Nova Spivack has just finished his talk, and I'm curious about the Twine project. I have to try it, and while he was talking I "came over" his blogpost form yesterday which again led me to Ian's interesting blogpost:Web 3G?
Tuesday, 4 March 2008
Tuesday, 23 October 2007
BlogTalk08
Preparing a paper for the BlogTalk Conference in march 2008 I am knocking my head against the concept of the archive. So far, I have written a draft of a proposal.
Weblogs in Education–
Entering the Archive of Writing and Reflection
Writing is a technology that allows us to conserve, edit and store experiences – fictive and non-fictive – for the writer herself or for others. This paper will argue that a proper understanding of the implications of blog technology on the experience of writing requires the clarification of two central concepts: reflection and archive.
The term reflection has a prominent status within the field of present day educational theory. A recurrent locus is the encouragement of students to reflect upon their written hand-in exercises. Regrettably the term very often lacks any substantial qualification. It is as if reflection is a given definite concept, assuming to know how students should write reflectively.
The theoretical approach to this complex theme is embedded in a philosophical discourse developing the conception of reflection from – roughly spoken – Descartes to Heidegger. After this short philosophical excursion, the paper will discuss how reflection as a mental activity depends on the technologies, communication forms and practises.
The concept of the archive is by no means an unambiguous term, but it offers us a place, a catalogue, an order to our reflection texts, and fortunately makes visible what the blog technology can offer their users when they are encouraged to write, comment or store reflection texts.
The weblog as a particular technology and archive system is thus a way of formatting the mode of reflection.
Even though the terms are significantly different - reflection is a philosophical term while archive belongs to the office technology – the paper wants to outline how the blog technology can be interpreted as a hyper textual reflective archive in an educational environment.
Weblogs in Education–
Entering the Archive of Writing and Reflection
Writing is a technology that allows us to conserve, edit and store experiences – fictive and non-fictive – for the writer herself or for others. This paper will argue that a proper understanding of the implications of blog technology on the experience of writing requires the clarification of two central concepts: reflection and archive.
The term reflection has a prominent status within the field of present day educational theory. A recurrent locus is the encouragement of students to reflect upon their written hand-in exercises. Regrettably the term very often lacks any substantial qualification. It is as if reflection is a given definite concept, assuming to know how students should write reflectively.
The theoretical approach to this complex theme is embedded in a philosophical discourse developing the conception of reflection from – roughly spoken – Descartes to Heidegger. After this short philosophical excursion, the paper will discuss how reflection as a mental activity depends on the technologies, communication forms and practises.
The concept of the archive is by no means an unambiguous term, but it offers us a place, a catalogue, an order to our reflection texts, and fortunately makes visible what the blog technology can offer their users when they are encouraged to write, comment or store reflection texts.
The weblog as a particular technology and archive system is thus a way of formatting the mode of reflection.
Even though the terms are significantly different - reflection is a philosophical term while archive belongs to the office technology – the paper wants to outline how the blog technology can be interpreted as a hyper textual reflective archive in an educational environment.
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