Comments on: 2008 Education Blogosphere Survey results

By: English grammar

English grammar — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 11:30:35 +0000

probably a difficult percentage to get a handle on. In an attempt to get at just this kind of info, we surveyed Hamline University students, faculty, and staff last month about their awareness and use of blogging. One subset of questions asked respondents whether blogging was being used in their instructional setting

By: Miguel Guhlin

Miguel Guhlin — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000

Scott, thanks for sharing. I love what you did with the data to make it more engaging.

My response reflect my lack of engagement with the data:
http://mguhlin.net/2008/10/read-reflect-blog.html

Warm regards and many thanks for the beautiful way you reflected this data and the time it took to collect/organize it!!

Miguel

By: Miguel Guhlin

Miguel Guhlin — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000

Scott, thanks for sharing. I love what you did with the data to make it more engaging.

My response reflect my lack of engagement with the data:
http://mguhlin.net/2008/10/read-reflect-blog.html

Warm regards and many thanks for the beautiful way you reflected this data and the time it took to collect/organize it!!

Miguel

By: Bill Ferriter

Bill Ferriter — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000

Hey Scott,

No joke—what I appreciate the most about your work here on Dangerously Irrelevant are your attempts to “sort out” what educational blogging really looks like and means.

The data is pertinent and helpful to me in my work as an advocate for educational blogging.

Thanks for taking the time to put this together.

Rock on,
Bill

BTW: The most interesting finding in the survey is how few teachers report feeling afraid of the consequences of blogging. In the recent US News article on teacher blogging, that was (unfortunately)a primary area of emphasis.

In your work with school leaders, do they ever express a fear of what teachers might say on blogs? Are they monitoring the writing that their teachers are doing?

I don’t ever feel threatened because I write responsibly, but I’d be interested in knowing how many school leaders are actually monitoring what their teacher-bloggers are writing.

Maybe I should feel threatened!

By: J

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000

Congratulations! This post will be included in the Mole Day edition of the Carnival of Education. You will be able to see it in action at the URL I submitted with the comments, once the link goes live on October 22. I thank you in advance for any plugs that you do for the CoE edition.

By: anna jennifer

anna jennifer — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000

The 2008 report reveals just how pervasive blogs have become , and the extent to which they are a part of our daily lives. The figures supporting this vary from survey to survey, but all are now consistently high!.
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anna jennifer
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By: Tina K.

Tina K. — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000

Great graphic with the lawnmowers, very creative and funny!!!
Agree with a lot of the findings.
Frustrating the whiteness of the results.
Made Iowa look uninvolved, no we were not all out in the fields harvesting corn and beans.
Not surprised with the secondary teacher results, let me tell you that early childhood teachers have a difficult time getting to a computer, even when they want to.
Fine Arts teachers 18, maybe more would help the graphics on some blog sites.

Just couple of things I would like to know from the results, perhaps next year…
1. When blogging do you look for articles you agree with, disagree with, or does not matter.
2. When responding to a blog article are you supportive, non-supportive, or asking for more information.
Just wondering what people are thinking when they look for posts.