{"id":2588,"date":"2004-09-21T00:23:01","date_gmt":"2004-09-21T04:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/09\/21\/monkeybrain-lives-again-2\/"},"modified":"2004-09-21T00:23:01","modified_gmt":"2004-09-21T04:23:01","slug":"monkeybrain-lives-again-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/09\/21\/monkeybrain-lives-again-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Monkeybrain Lives Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As
\n a teacher and a blogger, the Dowbrigade dreams of the day when he will
\n discover a blogger in one of his classes. We could blog about running the class and he or she could blog about being on the receiving end! Alas, despite a preponderance
\n of students from contries where Blogging is reportedly a big deal (South
\n Korea<\/a>, for example, home to 8 of our current class of 14), up until today
\n we
\n haven’t caught a glimmer of recognition when we asked, as we always do,
\n "Does anyone know what a Blog is?"<\/p>\n

Today, however, we met our latest class, young adults from
\n abroad studing at a major American university, with whom we will be working
\n daily until December. To our surprise, for the first time, when we asked
\n the Blog question, two hands went up. We take this as a definite sign
\n of
\n progress.<\/p>\n

They look like a lively bunch, quite fluent and interested
\n in all aspects of American culture and language, so we have decided to
\n use a blog in the teaching and administration of the class. We will be
\n using Monkeybrain<\/a>,
\n our teaching blog, and any readers interested in Blogs in Eduacation
\n may want to check it our from time to time over the next 12 weeks.<\/p>\n

At first, we will just be posting articles, postings
\n from other blogs and assignments, but we plan to make the students editors
\n by mid-semester and get them posting as well. Besides the Koreans, we
\n have
\n two Japanese,
\n a Chinese, a Spaniard, a Venezuelean and a Colombian, and all of them
\n are recently arrived in the States, so we should have some interesting
\n takes on the campaign and American life in general.<\/p>\n

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