Whether you’re new to the teaching field yourself or a seasoned veteran, you can find inspiration, advice and shared experiences by reading the blogs of other teachers. Both established bloggers and those new to the game like the bloggers listed here can offer some interesting and sometimes entertaining reading material for anyone involved in the education field. Check these new bloggers out the next time you’re looking for something educational to read.
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In his blog, Chris Chatham, tackles "developmental and computational cognitive neuroscience, comparative psychology, psychometrics, and artificial intelligence."
This blog attempts to create a collective memory of an ephemeral event: the 2005 installation by artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude entitled The Gates. The site, which has compiled thousands of photos of the installation, traces the similarities and the differences between individual experiences of this work of art.
The rise of blogging clearly represents a significant social phenomenon, but studying it poses a challenge in part because defining a blog is not a simple thing. There have been a number of attempts to do so at the technical level, where the presence of material organized by time stamp or the existence of RSS feeds have been suggested as defining features. A group at the University of California-Irvine, however, decided to approach the question from the perspective of human-computer interactions, where the humans involved were blog readers. Mixing in a dose of literary theory provided some interesting insights into how readers view and define blogs.
The girls reinforce their close friendships with one another & with classmates who also blog. They use their blogs to rollick & rant & reminisce, perhaps with less attention to the niceties of word choice & spelling & grammar than they invest in their English papers. They express sides of themselves at odds w/ their public personas & glimpse what may not be apparent in their friends.