Comments on: 6 reasons why teachers & professors should blog http://michaelmartine.com/2005/07/17/6-reasons-why-teachers-professors-should-blog/ Remarkable Blog Consulting and Coaching Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:56:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Michael http://michaelmartine.com/2005/07/17/6-reasons-why-teachers-professors-should-blog/#comment-15 Michael Sat, 23 Jul 2005 02:49:27 +0000 http://www.michaelmartine.com/2005/07/17/6-reasons-why-teachers-professors-should-blog/#comment-15 Excellent points. I was thinking more of college-level teaching, which is more specialized. <a href="http://wordpress.org/" rel="nofollow">WordPress</a>, which I use, allows you to assign as many categories to a post as you'd like. A wiki might be an interesting class tool, as well. Excellent points. I was thinking more of college-level teaching, which is more specialized. WordPress, which I use, allows you to assign as many categories to a post as you’d like. A wiki might be an interesting class tool, as well.

]]> By: wisbin http://michaelmartine.com/2005/07/17/6-reasons-why-teachers-professors-should-blog/#comment-14 wisbin Fri, 22 Jul 2005 21:16:00 +0000 http://www.michaelmartine.com/2005/07/17/6-reasons-why-teachers-professors-should-blog/#comment-14 yes, that would be a good idea.. until you really start looking for some blog-journal machine to try it out. If you teach 12-18 year olds, secondary school in my case, you probably have more than one class. Each class has more than 10 subjects at least. So having 10 classes, your blog should have some good categorisation features to provide students to find some meaningfull content, quickly. And what if you have paralell groups and want to put a specific entry on more than one category. Or if you like to have material available for all groups... I am not sure if a Blog is the right tool for teachers with 200 students. I think teachers need more than a journal based pubisher and I am sure they need more simpler and cheaper tools than Blackboard, for example . yes, that would be a good idea.. until you really start looking for some blog-journal machine to try it out.

If you teach 12-18 year olds, secondary school in my case, you probably have more than one class. Each class has more than 10 subjects at least. So having 10 classes, your blog should have some good categorisation features to provide students to find some meaningfull content, quickly.

And what if you have paralell groups and want to put a specific entry on more than one category. Or if you like to have material available for all groups…

I am not sure if a Blog is the right tool for teachers with 200 students. I think teachers need more than a journal based pubisher and I am sure they need more simpler and cheaper tools than Blackboard, for example .

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