Weblogs as Lab Notebooks -…

Weblogs as Lab Notebooks – McGee’s Musings. (SOURCE:McGee’s Musings)-Right on! This is an excellent application for weblogsSo, here’s a gedanken experiment for you. Setup each incoming Ph.D. or Master’s candidate with a weblog at the beginning of their program. Coach them to use the weblog as a lab notebook of their developing intellectual capital. Use your own weblog to comment on their work and their thinking. Where do you think these students will be after several years of sustained and steady writing? How many will have already started to establish reputations as serious thinkers? Sure, there will be lots of resistance to the idea. It threatens many a sacred cow. Make the initial experiments local or semi-private. Long-term you’re still likely to kill the existing system by substituting real-time peer review for the current unwieldy system. [Roland Tanglao’s Weblog]