What's in a blog? Blogs as a learning tool

This blog will be used to conduct a workshop to American University in Cairo faculty on the potential pedagogical uses of blogs

Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Indirect Educational Use

Examples of blogs not created for educational purposes that you could use

Personal stories with political background http://a-mother-from-gaza.blogspot.com/2006/02/in-times-of-israeli-closure-breastfeed.html

About Iraq by an Iraqi http://raedinthemiddle.blogspot.com/

Egyptian one http://baheyya.blogspot.com/

Slightly scholarly by Scandavian guy http://altahrir.blogspot.com/2006/02/in-defence-of-prophet-and-his-people.html

Subject-specific: Education http://educationwonk.blogspot.com/ http://connect.educause.edu/blog/StuartYeates

Ethics and Science http://scienceblogs.com/ethicsandscience/

Current events (Cartoon issue example) http://skeptico.blogs.com/skeptico/2006/02/islam_for_dummi.html

Critical thinking http://skeptico.blogs.com/

European tribune http://www.eurotrib.com/special/about

Evolution http://evolutionblog.blogspot.com/

Cited as most read blogger: http://instapundit.com/

Another famous one http://www.dynamist.com/weblog/

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