Just so that this blog actually has some useful information on rather than just inane ramblings, I thought I'd give a quick link to a site which I found of use. This is a journal list which I just came across on the HEA computer sciences web-site. It has a list of journals for publishing papers on educational technology etc. - the list on the left hand side takes you to a range of different journals with a brief description and some metrics. It may be of interest:
http://www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/resources/pedagogical/cs_research/BJET.php
Perhaps I can publish my sceptical blog there?!
Wednesday, 13 June 2007
Tuesday, 12 June 2007
Hello again. Well I was disappointed - or perhaps I was pleased - to learn that I'm not the only sceptical blogger out there. A quick google search reveals quite a number of us! I'm told that the only way to discover the real utility of blogs is to write one - but already I'm coming across a number of difficulties. The first is what to write about? It's difficult to write something with a vague unknown audience in mind - yes I know nobody reads most of this rubbish but still they might - and that matters! I gather from some of the research I've read that students write better because they appreciate that others may read their ramblings - but I don't think it's having this effect on me. I also keep thinking that I really have a lot more important things to do ....
Saturday, 9 June 2007
My first blog post
Hello and welcome to my blog! It's entitled the sceptical blogger because that's what I am - or how I feel at this moment in time. As a university lecturer, we seem to be increasingly told that web 2.0 and new technologies are the future of education, and I'm always left with the question, WHY? Will be interested in your answers to this question, and am open to listening to the fantastic educational benefits of such technologies, or would also like to hear from people who, like me, are still a bit sceptical. The cynics, if you like!
I sometimes get the impression that technophiles think that others (like me!) are only sceptical because we can't use the technology - hence my enthusiasm for setting up my own blog ... just to demonstrate that I can do it - I just don't necessarily see the point! (at least in educational terms). Yes, I can do it, but having looked at sites such as Facebook and Bebo, I can't help that thnking that much of the content is anti-educational and illiterate, rather than educational in its content and language. OK, call me an old fogey if you like, you're probably right!
I sometimes get the impression that technophiles think that others (like me!) are only sceptical because we can't use the technology - hence my enthusiasm for setting up my own blog ... just to demonstrate that I can do it - I just don't necessarily see the point! (at least in educational terms). Yes, I can do it, but having looked at sites such as Facebook and Bebo, I can't help that thnking that much of the content is anti-educational and illiterate, rather than educational in its content and language. OK, call me an old fogey if you like, you're probably right!
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