Here’s an innocent statement I just can’t let go without commenting on. In a post yesterday (“LearnHub Relaunches Its Social Learning Network“) Jason Kincaid at TechCrunch said that “Online education has been booming recently…”
Online education is not a recent innovation. Large-scale corporatisation of education is a recent innovation – if you can call it an innovation. I happen to think that “innovation” carries a far more positive connotation than this financially driven trend deserves.
For as long as the internet has been in existence, forward thinking educators have …

Konrad Glogowski from the blog of proximal development offers a very thought provoking learning aid called The Ripple Effect Reflection Sheet.
While the document was initially created with Year 8 students in mind the implications it presents are quite relevant to the wider topic of educational blogging.
According to Glogowski:
“The Ripple Effect Sheet is designed to encourage students to become aware of the class blogosphere, of other writers, of entries that define the environment in which they write, and of their own contributions to that environment.”
The ripples depicted in the handout are …