Presentation at Caledonian Academy / Glasgow

1. The Power of Weblogs
Martin Ebner

4. http://www.martinebner.at
http://lifestream.fm/mebner
http://mebner.jaiku.com
http://elearningblog.tugraz.at
http://twitter.com/mebner
http://tugll.tugraz.at
LaBomba Aida - Second Life

5. Technology enhanced Learning
http://flickr.com/photos/powerbooktrance/289992273//

6. uLearning
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sovietuk/141381675

8. „From a sample size of around 2 million US
people, US Web stats company Compete
concludes that social networking sites are
quickly approaching the traffic level of the
big portals like Google and Yahoo“
MacManus, 2006

9. What is a of Weblog?

10. A Weblog is ...
• - a frequently updated
• - website
• - consisting of data entries
• - arranged in reverse chronological
order

11. „concept of decentralization, per-user
publication“
Karger & Quan, 2005
„user centred information/content“
Schiefner & Ebner, 2008
„a useful information-gathering tool for
practitioners“
Porter et al., 2007
„blogs from experts or researchers are of high
interest and relevance“
Heise, 2007
„keeping oneself or anyone else tracked and
checking running progress“
Luca & McLoughlin, 2005
„weblogs help bloggers to become a part of a
wide communication network “
Peschke & Lübecke, 2005

12. „The Wisdom of Crowds“
versus
„The cult of the amateur“?

13. e-Learning 2.0
http://www.flickr.com/photos/leighblackall/64953825/

14. „Blogs are both individualistic and
collaborative. Blogs promote self-
expression, a place where the author can
develop highly personalized content.“
Huffaker, 2005

15. Different Webloghoster or -
systems

16. Usability and
Mobility
http://flickr.com/photos/ben30/160708916/

17. From a technical
view ok, but ...
... why should
I blog?
http://flickr.com/photos/jankroemer/2392009819/

18. What is the success story of weblogs?
Why should I use a weblog for my daily-
learning processes?

19. Learning approaches
• - Self determined learning
• - Informal learning

20. Doctoral students
• - ... should have the ability to design,
• implement and adopt a research
• process
• - ... should understand their subject
• and have the associate skills
• - ... should contribute something new
• to the subject of their thesis
How can collected material be structured and
saved that it can be retrieved years later?

21. Blogging Theory
- Individuality
- Collectivity
- Community
http://flickr.com/photos/louveciennes/2155673014/

23. Collecting
Sharing
Reflecting
http://flickr.com/photos/alysser/2011022884/

24. Weblogs have the potential ...
• - ... to foster self-determined learning
• - ... to foster informal learning
• - ... to support digital archives
• - ... to enlarge communities
• - ... to be part of the daily life

25. „The blogosphere represents a communication-
and cooperation network. So why should
scientific staff as well as students not use it?“
Marc Scheloske, 2008
http://flickr.com/photos/wilhei/109404349

26. How can students of use Weblogs in a
formal educational institution?

34. bookmark plugin + tugll
it button einfügen

36. Ranking Plugin bases on
„wisdom of the crowds“ theory

37. User rate accuracy factor
User content rate factor
User state

39. Further extensions
• View Plugin
• Widgets Extension
• Search Plugin

40. The Weblog as step
towards Personal
Information
Environment
http://flickr.com/photos/thomcochrane/416206133/

41. SOCIAL LEARNING
Computer and Information Services
Graz University of Technology
Graz University of Technology
Martin Ebner
http://elearning.tugraz.at
http://elearningblog.tugraz.at