Blogging goes to school
p2p news / p2pnet:- The all-too-often unreliable, heavily biased corporate mainstream press outlets are in trouble. Their word is no longer THE word. Citizen journalists and news sites and blogs are fast becoming the trusted sources for surfers and with millions of new people going online every day, the influence of these decentralised, independent info sites is exploding.
Traditional press reports are locked tight up by the chains of copyright, meaning items they carry can’t be generally disseminated in full for fear of legal repercussions. But most indie web pubs are free for all so their news and information pollinates the Web.
During America’s recent hurricane disasters, people turned to the Net, not the ‘traditional’ media, to find out what was happening and now, blogging is starting to become a part of activities at school.
“As a middle-school teacher, Clarence Fisher is used to spending some time each evening grading papers and reviewing lesson plans,” says CNET News.
“But this year he’s got an additional after-school task: updating his students’ blogs,” the story says, going on:
“Students in Fisher’s combined seventh- and eighth-grade class at Joseph H. Kerr School in Snow Lake, Manitoba, and in Hillary Meeler’s fifth grade class at J.H. House Elementary in the Atlanta suburb of Conyers serve up entries that can amuse, charm and captivate with their simplicity and candidness."
But although they’re learning technical skills, “they’re also learning that they have a voice online," Fisher is quoted as saying. "They may be from a tiny town in the middle of nowhere, but they’re writing online, people are commenting on it, and they’re learning that they have a voice."
Back in the USSA, Jay Nieves, a sophomore at East Side Community High School in New York City, “began blogging last year and now does it almost every day in his New Journalism class" and if you listen to the pundits, “blogs are just the beginning of a bigger push toward more interactive Internet use in schools,” says the CNET, story.
And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
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See:-
CNET News – Blogging 101–Web logs go to school, October 17, 2005
October 17th, 2005 at 3:19 pm
In a way p2pnet.net is not only a news aggregator (the term I use to refer to a website that collects relevant online articles from various other websites), but it is ALSO a blog… a public blog that is!!!!
October 17th, 2005 at 3:51 pm
To add my two cents:
p2pnet also has a great deal of original material and serves as a catalyst and as a repository of material that can’t be found anywhere else.
Morg