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Rudolf Amman skillfully points out some important ethical questions concerning the use of Livejournal in classroom settings. He writes:
I’m
especially curious about the LiveJournal setting. LiveJournal is
tightly-knit set of micro-networks, some of them jealously guarded,
many of them complete with turf fights and a big dose of identity
politics added to the mix. And, of course, they’re [...]

I recently wrote a short piece for the Internet TESL journal describing how I added an experiential element to my EFL reading/writing classes last spring through the use of Livejournal. Students wrote weekly and were able to interact with the peers from abroad in the target language. It was educational and fun for [...]

The beginning of the semester has just about killed me. Being short-staffed, teaching the two-week intensive ’survival Japanese’ course - while creating homework, tests, and quizzes for it, coordinating the area studies, giving feedback on the dozens of papers already submitted, answering students questions, dealing with administrative difficulties, and trouble-shooting the computers and printers [...]

Tim Denny (who definitely needs a blog) points us to an excellent guidebook for teachers in higher ed, called Teaching at Mizzou - worth a look for any teacher I’d say. via Kansai LCT
*update*  The technology section of the guidebook includes no mention of weblogs or wikis….hmmm….???  They have a school of [...]