As I’ve touched on recently, I’m very interested in exploring the capacity of blogs to enhance and support the educational process, both from the standpoint of independent learning and exploration, and adaptation to more traditional classroom activities. However while the former is easily implemented, the latter requires much more consideration and there have historically been some holes in my vision that needed fleshing out.
With Monday’s launch of Prologue, a new possibility has been injected into the mix that I’d like to explore here for a moment.
Pedagogy and learning objectives …

Wordpress launched Prologue today, in a move that many technophiles and bloggers have immediately heralded as the death of Twitter. Personally, I think the hype has gotten the better of far too many people.
Twitter and Prologue are both very solid applications that offer a tremendous amount of value to users, however they serve distinctly different purposes and have few real similarities. As a result, Prologue is likely to appeal to a completely different user niche than Twitter, and won’t pose any major threat to its market share.
Before …