Op Communigations staat een verwijzing naar een prima artikel over de potentie van weblogs als tool voor educatie van de hand van Elmine Wijnia op de site van eLearningeuropa.

Enkele conclusies:

– The weblog, or blog, is a webpage on which the author publishes pieces with the intention to start conversation.
– One of the big advantages of blogs is that students can see what their peers do and thus learn from eachother.
– Next to that, the interaction between students and between students and teacher is not limited to the face-to-face time that has been scheduled
– In the subjective perspective, or personal sphere, self-expression is important.
– In the objective perspective knowledge sharing is the central issue.
– In the intersubjective perspective, weblogs serve as a platform for societal debate.
– When more people start blogging, according to the formal world perspectives of Habermas, it is a logical consequence that networks will form, sometimes globally, around interests and topics.
– The blogosphere does not operate in a vacuum communicatively speaking. Other channels for communication will be used beside the blog, such as e-mail, VoIP (internet telephony) and chat.
– If for teenagers the screen is their umbilical cord to the world, why is there so little being taught through the screen in schools?

Als je het artikel zo leest dan past dit perfect in de tijd van communicatieve zelfsturing en emotion economy. En gisteren werd door Frank Janssen en Maarten Sikkema op de bijeenkomst van Kenniscirkel ook gesproken over weblogs als conversatie en het gebruik van diverse middelen om dit mogelijk te maken.