Eric Baber's blog

Some very good pointers here by James Farmer on how you should use blogs in education. Follows on from his article how NOT to use blogs in education.

I particularly like the points

• "Never never approach blogs as discussion boards, listservs or learning management systems"
• "Ignore RSS at your peril" (do people really?! I don't think I've yet come across a blog that didn't have RSS, though I suppose I don't know to what extent users of blogs actually use the RSS feeds. If they don't, I completely agree that they should)

and

• You should use blogs for what they are good for

That last bit sounds obvious, but it doesn't seem to be. With blogs, you definitely seem to get the "hammer" approach - once you've got a hammer, everything you see becomes a nail. A blog isn't the only, be-all-and-end-all electronic tool an educator may want to use. It's good for certain things, but not for everything, so judicious use is the key.