'A student spends 25,000 hours in the campus. The school must have the best of teachers who have the ability to teach, love teaching and build moral qualities' - A.P.J. ABDUL KALAM
Compliments on Teacher's Day.Some interesting questions on blogging by faculty members have been raised in Chronicle careers. Is it right for a faculty member to use blog as a publishing tool? What happens when a faculty member maintains a personal blog, that can go against him during tenureship? What happens when a blog of a faculty job applicant is seen by the selection committee. Can blogs be used for job evaluation and a selection criteria? Should faculty blogs only be of academic nature or further research? Read here
I feel a blog is a great way to educate and share knowledge. There is great potential in open access to ideas and thoughts. Blogs go a long way to fulfill accessibility without constraints.
Address to the Nation by Hon. President of India on Teachers day is very inspring. Read here
3 comments:
Considering the amount of time netizens spend reading and writing blogs, we could have a winner here.We should explore the use of Blogs in education.Besides Blogging should be permitted by employers too.
a blog would give the students the freedom to interact anonymously and share feedback.
This is a rather old article from Arstechnica on why one should be cautious in blogging...
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050711-5080.html
karthik
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