{"id":526,"date":"2006-02-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?e=526"},"modified":"2015-08-14T05:54:27","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T05:54:27","slug":"blogvangelists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/blogvangelists\/","title":{"rendered":"blogvangelists"},"content":{"rendered":"

Peter Ford, who I am looking forward to meeting at Communicate.06, has an interesting post Why I am not a blogvangelist?<\/a> talking about Terry Freedman’s post Blogvangelism, podvangelism and wikivangelism: why?<\/a><\/p>\n

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The blogvangelist preaches his or her blogging Sermon on the Mount, inspiring great faith for educational revival but quickly moving on to the next group of willing listeners.<\/p>\n

? And the teacher is left with a blog or two, a few reams of digital paper and a digital pen – the educational equivalent of a few loaves and fishes – and is expected to improve the lot of the audience-starved masses in the classroom. Unfortunately blogs are just tools and have no transforming power in themselves.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I don?t think the term ?blogvangelism? adequately reflects the creative slog that is required from teachers to make blogs an effective tool in schools.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As a teacher I have to agree with that one. I especially like slog<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I’d used blogs ( johnjohnston.pitas.com<\/a> and Bad Poet<\/a>) for a while before I used blogs in the classroom. When I started teaching with blogs I was fairly confident in using the system, posting, creating templates etc. I could talk pupils through the process without having to think and fix things without worry. <\/p>\n

For a lot of teachers blogs (if they have heard of them) are just one more thing<\/b>, there has been a huge number of initiatives in teaching in the last few years all proclaiming great things. Blogs are also one more ICT<\/b> thing, there has probably been more progress in teacher’s ict skills than many other areas of teaching, but quite a few folk are ready for a wee ict rest rather than a further effort.<\/p>\n

One more thing<\/b> becomes particularly stressful when it is delivered for an evangelist, especially one who quickly moving on<\/em>.<\/p>\n

IMO we need extended support for introducing new tech (or new anything), we need time and time costs money. We could probably do with a little more flexibility in the curriculum to allow us to relax and have fun as we learn too.<\/p>\n

Maybe if teacher’s had a bit more playtime they would not need to be evangelised?<\/p>\n

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Peter Ford, who I am looking forward to meeting at Communicate.06, has an interesting post Why I am not a blogvangelist? talking about Terry Freedman’s post Blogvangelism, podvangelism and wikivangelism: why? The blogvangelist preaches his or her blogging Sermon on the Mount, inspiring great faith for educational revival but quickly moving on to the next […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"post_format":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-526","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-wwwd","7":"kind-","8":"h-entry","9":"hentry"},"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-8u","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3291,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions\/3291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}