Education & Blogs @ Les Blogs
James Farmer,
incorporated subversion,
Dec 12, 2005
Ewan McIntosh, who launched edu.blogs.com last July, represented the edublogger community at the recent Les Blogs conference in Paris, his meanderings causing James Farmer to comment, "the total [and] blanket ignorance of what I might describe as the edublogosphere and of the broad and innovative uses of blogs in education over the last 5 years in these kind of forums does worry me." What has been happening is, of course, as Peter Ford describes it, "Educational blogging consultants seem to be springing up all over the place, some aiming for the guru-status of being paid for hot-air production about blogs and related technology that they never have used at the chalkface." Nothing against McIntosh, who was simply taking advantage of an opportunity (though his response to Farmer was, to my reading, unduly hostile). No, the organizers of such conferences (the BloggerCons were the same) are interested in the Mena Trotts and David Weinbergers of the world, and their interest in (and knowledge of) the world of blogging doesn't extend much beyond that obvious commercial bias. Anyhow, caveat emptor.
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