In the classroom, I encourage students to use weblogs primarily as a knowledge management tool, and secondarily as a tool for reflection. This Frank Nack article on a collection of innovative tools for “lifelogging,” as well as his reflections on the potential and limits of multimedia blogging technology for recording and sharing thoughts and experiences raises some good questions. Does the information captured through blogging lose value when being decontextualized and recontextualized? I think there may be gains as well as losses, but it’s part of my purpose in experimenting with them.
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