Welcome to the unit blog

Ok - so this looks like just another blog. And, let's face it - you've probably had enough of the blogging already from me. So don't think of it as a blog. Really, it's a bold experiment that aims to push the boundaries of current thinking on teaching and learning. Or something like that.

Actually, the idea is to see if blogs can be used to support your work on the Radio Features unit. So kind of like the thing we're doing with the Red Button blog. Amanda already uses Blackboard to circulate hand outs, handbooks and important info and links. The idea isn't just to do the same thing with this, though we will be posting links to interesting material, in particular interesting radio work.

Rather, the plan here is to involve you directly and see if the blog works as a tool for discussing the work you're doing on the unit. Once I've set it up properly, you will all be guest authors on this blog. You'll be able to post on here - add your own ideas and links.

What you post is, on one level, up to you. But we'd like to encourage you to post ideas or updates about the work you're doing on the unit. Perhaps you've heard something that really inspired you and you want to see what other people think. Perhaps you've got an idea and you want to test it out on the class. You can do that on here. You can also leave comments - on the ideas people post here, on the links people highlight.

Now, clearly, it's possible to have discussions on Blackboard. But if we do it on the blog, it's easier to link out the web and connect what you talk about to other resources online.

That's the idea. It may turn out that it doesn't work that way at all. You may discover an alternative use for the blog.

But however it goes, I hope you find it useful.