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December 08, 2004
I get it!
I'm studying the way Collin Brooke has set up his CCR 711 syllabus in a blog, and it doesn't take more than a couple of seconds' studying to see what genius this is. For a blog newbie like me, this is a revelation--a revolution in how one thinks of a course and how it operates.
I'm not referring to Collin's 711 itself (though, as Krista notes, the course itself is a whole new—and important—animal. Lots of people, I suspect, will be following the online portion of CCR 711.) Rather, I'm referring to the idea of the homepage for a course being a blog, where people can respond, ask questions, make suggestions—before, during, and after the course. The blog setup also makes it possible for people to use the "categories" feature to find all the materials available about any given course topic or item.
It's how I'll be setting up all my course syllabi in the future. Thanks, Collin.
P.S. Just for the record, this entry is my first attempt at a trackback ping, which I'm hoping Collin will actually get. Another blog milestone reached.
Posted by senioritis at December 8, 2004 09:39 AM