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  • Glenn Groulx published a blog post Using Blogs for Foreign Language Learning - French November 24, 2010 - 8:55pm
    Voice Blog entry: French language learning - social networks   Here is the next example of how I have begun to use edublogs of educators, this time in French. Specialized Vocabulary: These terms and phrases are quite useful...
  • Glenn Groulx uploaded the file Google Translator - French text November 24, 2010 - 8:28pm
  • Glenn Groulx published a blog post Using Blogs for Foreign Language Learning - Polish November 24, 2010 - 6:05pm
    I am an upper intermediate learner of Polish, having spent six years in Poland in the mid 90’s as an EFL teacher. I have recently decided to expand my edublogging to demonstrate what I refer to BFL (Blogging in a Foreign Language). I am...
  • Glenn Groulx commented on the file Intro 2 Voice Blogging November 23, 2010 - 10:03pm
    Thank you Eric for your feedback and questions - I have posted two voice blog posts that develop some preliminary answers to the questions you are asking. Glenn
  • Glenn Groulx published a blog post Voice Blogging: Meanderings and Commentaries November 23, 2010 - 10:02pm
    I lost the text while adding it to the comment to the original blog post thread - but I have done some voice-blogging that captures much of the ideas from the text I used. This first voice-post is an example of brainstorming, of making connections,...
  • Glenn Groulx uploaded the file text vs voice blogging November 23, 2010 - 9:48pm
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    • Eric von Stackelberg November 24, 2010 - 10:49am

      I especially appreciate your comment on voice blogging and podcasts being different. On the nature of revisions for voice blogging you could make additional records and merge, however I wonder if that adds value to the act of voice blogging.

      An additional point to ponder is the differences when moving to video. If we compare text, voice and video blogs do each have specific value or are voice and video providing very similar benefits? I definitely agree that video blogging and videocasts remain different just as voice blogging and podcasts are different.

      Best

      Eric

    • Jo Ann Hammond-Meiers November 24, 2010 - 12:10pm

      Hi Glenn and Eric,

      You raise an important comparison -- between voice blogging and video (blogging).  I think that I always like to see the person talking, and yet I also like to shut my eyes and listen deeply or in a reflective manner to voice.

      Cheers,

      Jo Ann

  • Glenn Groulx uploaded the file meanderings November 23, 2010 - 9:46pm
  • Glenn Groulx published a blog post Sense-Making: Utilizing Voice-Blogging November 23, 2010 - 6:48pm
    I have prepared a brief intro to the topic of voice-blogging, and attached an audio file, Intro 2 Voice Blogging. The most useful application for voice-blogging is when one engages in private sense-making within one's own ideas sandbox, and...
  • Glenn Groulx uploaded the file Intro 2 Voice Blogging November 23, 2010 - 6:41pm
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    • Eric von Stackelberg November 23, 2010 - 6:54pm

      Using the example of a reflective blog can you see significant differences between a text-image blog versus a voice blog?

      I would expect there are some differences based on personal styles (eg. voice vs text vs image) however I would propose an activity that is blog appropriate is could use either medium.

    • Glenn Groulx November 23, 2010 - 10:03pm

      Thank you Eric for your feedback and questions - I have posted two voice blog posts that develop some preliminary answers to the questions you are asking.

      Glenn

  • Glenn Groulx published a blog post You Can't "Get" Students to Blog! November 22, 2010 - 12:16pm
    Ultimately, the idea of blogging as a task requirement in the conventional pedagogical model does not work. I fundamentally disagree with requiring students to blog in the following circumstances: Tying the task of personal blogging to...
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    • Tanya Elias November 24, 2010 - 7:38pm

      Hi Glenn,

      Thanks for the post. I agree with you in theory, however being someone who is normally dragedd kicking and screaming into something new, I also wonder if the job of edcuators is not to "push" learners to try things that may be beneficial that those learners may not try on their own...

      I took a journalism course one time and the prof told us the become a better writer is to write alot, and a good way to do that is to write for twenty minutes every morning, no matter what, about anything.  It sounded like a good idea so I tried it - I lasted three days. 

      I can't help but wonder if it may have been helpful if she had "forced" us to try it for a semester if maybe more of us would have picked up the habit.  (What do they say?  It takes 90 (not really sure that's the number)  days to create a new habit, but only one to break it.)

      Anyway, I really am conflicted on this one, and your post offered up an intresting perspective.  Thanks.

    • Glenn Groulx November 24, 2010 - 9:06pm

      Hi Tanya,

      I certainly agree that there are times when learning requires a firm helping hand.

      Voice-Blog comment: Needing the push to learn

    • Caroline Park November 25, 2010 - 9:20am

      Neato! My first voice-blog on The Landing. (Perhaps you have posted others but I missed them).

  • Glenn Groulx uploaded the file tweetdeck November 19, 2010 - 11:17am
  • Glenn Groulx published a blog post Setting Strategies November 19, 2010 - 11:12am
    Setting:   Blog posts that involve active identification, sorting, comparing and analysis of other users' data sets such as dashboards, followers, collections, bookmarks, blogrolls, tag clouds and home pages. For example, by looking at...