This year saw blogging enter the mainstream and I’ve noticed that I no longer have to explain it to most people. I changed platforms (from Drupal to WordPress), which has made comment spam management much easier. There is no doubt that e-mail spam is a major problem today and now comment & trackback spam have claimed their places of infamy (as much as 93%) on Web 2.0.
The good news is that blogs are frequently cited in the mass media. The bad news is that most teachers in our area don’t have a clue about blogs, the two-way web or how to incorporate these into their teaching. Plus ça change …
This blog has had a constant increase in readership this year [thank you] with several posts getting significant views and comments. I just checked the stats and these are the most popular posts on this site in the past year, as determined by number of viewers. They’re listed in chronological order.
- Teachers’ Roles in Learning & Problem-solving (Nov 2005)
- Learners as contributors – the end of the industrial model (Jan 2006)
- The relevance of the learning profession (Jun 2006)
- Informal learning and performance technology (Jul 2006)
- Blackboard patents the LMS, but does it matter? (Jul 2006)
- Blackboard Sues D2L over LMS Patent (Aug 2006)
- My PKM System (Aug 2006)
- Aliant Connection Speed – the saga continues (Sep 2006)
- Small schools, loosely joined (Sep 2006)
- SmartDraw 2007 (Oct 2006)
