Comments on: How Should ED Blog Develop? What’s Your View?

By: Dave Guerin

Dave Guerin — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:25:25 +0000

I’m thinking of testing a couple of ideas soon. One is a weekly soapbox for people in the sector – I’ve now had 3 sector groups express interest in making contributions (but no copy yet). Another is a series of weekly posts, such as one on export education or universities, but I’m not sure whether it’s better to hold some issues back to fit into a weekly post or just deal with them on the day they appear.

There is certainly room for people out in the sector to contribute a regular post every week or fortnight on a topic of their choice – could be about anything from marketing to educational buildings.

As different authors and types of content develop, the site design will evolve – The Standard (http://www.thestandard.org.nz/), for instance, is making good use of a magazine style format to cater for their wide range of topics and contributors.

By: Paul Williams

Paul Williams — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 08:22:10 +0000

Apropos something vaguely related. The CE of the largest education agency in the southern hemisphere tweets http://twitter.com/MCT_DG

By: Darel

Darel — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 03:48:01 +0000

It would take an innovative state service to do it but . . . I would love to see state service staff post on what they care about in their work. I’d welcome the arcane and obscure (eg, why is formal learning defined the way it is . . ) to big directional posts outlining the current state of thinking on an issue like national qualification or how will/ will students learn in institutions in the future?

I would also like to see lobby groups present more technical arguments here. With a specialist blog like this leaving some readers behind is OK (if they care they will follow up and find out).