One of the complaints often directed at blogging is that not everyone is a blogger - not everyone has the interest, time or the skills to write for others.
While glancing through Furl’s Popular List , I realized how effective it could be as a learning tool. Anyone can use Furl (it simply stores a copy of a webpage in your user folder, so pages aren’t lost or links broken). Making connections is a knowledge era skill. Imagine a group of 25 students subscribing to each others online topics of interest (Furl folders can be public or private)…gaining insight into what other classmates found interesting enough to keep.
Furl instead of blog
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Furl as Classroom Tool
George Siemens at elearnspace says: One of the complaints often directed at blogging is that not everyone is a blogger - not everyone has the interest, time or the skills to write for others.
Options for participation
elearnspace makes an important observation about participation with respect to the sharable book-marking tools out there in Furl instead of blog:One of the complaints often directed at blogging is that not everyone is a blogger - not everyone has the…