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Once again, after a protracted break, the Dowbrigade is back in the
\n classroom on a daily basis. For the next twelve weeks we will be working
\n with a group of 16 foreign business students, representing nine different
\n countries: Korea, Japan, Taiwan, France, Spain, Switzerland, Argentina,
\n Egypt and the Ivory Coast.<\/p>\n
As a lapsed cultural anthropologist, this is the kind of class we love,
\n offering endless opportunities for cross-cultural comparisons and group
\n activities. About half of them will be starting MBA programs in September,
\n the rest returning to their countries.<\/p>\n
Accordingly, we have cranked up the old teaching blog, Monkeybrain<\/a>, Anyway, those of you interested in the application of blogging to teaching Once again, after a protracted break, the Dowbrigade is back in the classroom on a daily basis. For the next twelve weeks we will be working with a group of 16 foreign business students, representing nine different countries: Korea, Japan, … Continue reading
\n and have some new ideas about how to use it this summer. In the
\n past we have tried: 1) getting our students to start their own blogs
\n on a Manila server (this was largely unsuccessful as only one out of
\n 15 ended the semester with a living blog) 2) making our students co-editors
\n and having them find, compose and post stories to Monkeybrain (this was
\n much more successful as they were all able to do the minimum 3 postings
\n and some went wild and posted many more, and 3) having each student,
\n after an exploration of the blogosphere, select a blog, read it daily
\n for two weeks, and then do a show and tell with the projector reviewing
\n it for their classmates (this was enormously successful and introduced
\n us to several blogs we still check on a regular basis which we would never have heard of
\n otherwise).<\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/monkeybrain\/monnkey.jpg\")
<\/a>What
\n will we do with Monkeybrain<\/a> this
\n semester? We haven’t quite decided, but probably some combination of
\n two and three above, with a few new
\n twists. For
\n one, we think we finally have the equipment and expertise to make a
\n decent recording of some of our classes, and post them as mp3 files (although
\n we still don’t have a clue how to include them as RSS enclosures
\n for those who aggregate the Dowbrigade). At the very least students who miss a class could listen to it from home, and maybe there is some political prisoner in Tibet with internet access who is just dying to follow along with a course in Advanced Academic Business English.<\/p>\n
\n and higher education might want to keep an eye on Monkeybrain<\/a> for the
\n next 3 months…..<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"