Dan Olsen’s Weblog

I received a comment from Phil Windley in which he stated:

I’ve used blogs (including Slash, Radio and Movable Type) to manage courses for about 3 years. Have you thought about how blogs can be used to achieve many of the same features of Blackboard? I’d be interested in seeing a comparison of features and uses.

Phil Windley :: Associate Professor of Computer Science at Brigham Young University

I had a class from Dr. Windley where he used a weblog for the class and that was the first time I was introduced to weblogs. I plan on looking into comparisons between Blackboard and weblogs.

After reading the comment by Dr. Windley I started searching the Internet for other blogs that post on the topic of Technology in Education or similar topics. The first blog that I bumped into was Will Richardson’s Weblogg-Ed. Mr. Richardson posts news that he finds around the Internet mostly regarding weblogs in education. On his blog, Mr. Richardson also has a link called “educator weblogs” which is a list of educator’s weblogs as the name of the link implies. I have contacted Mr. Richardson and hope to hear back from him and hear some of his ideas and philosophies.

Another blog a came across was DV for Teachers by Tim Merritt. DV for Teachers is a weblog with ideas and information for teachers in regards to technology. I read a couple of posts from this blog and found that it has some basic useful information.

I will continue to look more in depth on the subject of weblogs used for educational purposes as it seems to be growing in popularity. I also plan to look and see what other systems there are in the market that are similar to Blackboard and compare them as well.