Comments on: Google rank http://mikecaulfield.com/2007/11/29/google-rank/ edupunk, elearning, socialware, rhetoric, discourse analysis, instructional technology, keene nh, other stuff Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:00:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Mike http://mikecaulfield.com/2007/11/29/google-rank/#comment-599 Mike Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:10:30 +0000 http://mikecaulfield.com/2007/11/29/google-rank/#comment-599 You know, this is a really good question -- and it gets to the core of the issue. Until people use blogging to try to achieve something (rather than just to blog) they invariably don't get it. That achievement might be communicating with an audience, or a Community of Practice, or potential co-authors -- but until they do it professionally, they won't get it. I think the situation today is a parallel to a student coming in in 1985 and saying to his history professor -- so how do I use the library for research? And the professor saying "Library? What do I look like, a librarian?" Until we create a culture that sees networked approaches as central to what we do professionally, we can't teach students how to be effective in this new world. You know, this is a really good question — and it gets to the core of the issue. Until people use blogging to try to achieve something (rather than just to blog) they invariably don’t get it.

That achievement might be communicating with an audience, or a Community of Practice, or potential co-authors — but until they do it professionally, they won’t get it.

I think the situation today is a parallel to a student coming in in 1985 and saying to his history professor — so how do I use the library for research? And the professor saying “Library? What do I look like, a librarian?”

Until we create a culture that sees networked approaches as central to what we do professionally, we can’t teach students how to be effective in this new world.

]]> By: Larry Welkowitz http://mikecaulfield.com/2007/11/29/google-rank/#comment-597 Larry Welkowitz Mon, 03 Dec 2007 01:27:41 +0000 http://mikecaulfield.com/2007/11/29/google-rank/#comment-597 How can we get the message to academics (especially those at 2nd tier colleges and universities who have difficulty accessing big grant money and 1st tier professional journals) that they should write using blogs?!? Writing daily in a public way would keep them, well, writing...wouldn't it? How can we get the message to academics (especially those at 2nd tier colleges and universities who have difficulty accessing big grant money and 1st tier professional journals) that they should write using blogs?!? Writing daily in a public way would keep them, well, writing…wouldn’t it?

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