I just completed this page turner, and wow is what I have to say. This book is a must read written by Steven Johnson. I am now rereading and focusing on how these ideas apply to change in education. This information on blogging caught me eye.
“more than eight million Americans report they have a weblog or online diary. The wonderful blog-tracking service Technorati reports that roughly 275,000 blog entries are published in the average day – a tiny fraction of them published by professional writers.” Page 119
“ Ater only two years of media hype, the number of active bloggers in the United States alone has reached the size of prime time network television” Page 119
“There’s plenty of arm chair journalism out there, of course, but the great bulk of personal publishing is just that, personal: the online diary is the dominant discourse mode in the blogoshere.” Page 119
“There is no denying the content of your average online diary can be juvenile. These diaries, in fact, were created by juveniles. But thirty years ago those juveniles weren’t writing novels or composing sonnets in there spare time; the were watching Laverne and Shirley. Better to have minds actively composing the soap operas of their lives than zoning out in front of someone else’s.” page 120
Now on to gaming!
Wednesday, October 19, 2005
Back to Blogging
Sorry all that have dropped by to visit, I have been engaged in a number of other activities and now I will try and stay on track. I have been writing, and researching extensively about the power of using images and multimedia in the classroom. I also have been busy volunteering and driving my short guys all over the county!
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