What a time it’s been (so far)
The other day, there was a very interesting posting to my class blog.
About a month ago, two of my students reported on research by a geneticist involved with sleep and memory, and posted their reports to the my class blog. In their reports, the students raised some questions about the research.
Yesterday, that researcher responded to the students questions in the blog itself. This is incredibly exciting!
So far, in less than 8 weeks, we have interacted with a graduate student from Ohio who was doing research in the instructional use of blogs. My students participated in a survey, which formed a key part of a paper she has prepared.
Earlier this week, we heard from an author of an article from National Geographic, who was impressed with a student’s critique of his work. And now this.
Frankly, I expected to see the benefits of blogging in terms of students connecting with one another. But I never expected to have them connect with the world at large so quickly.
