Rick West

We got together as members of the BlogTracks team to talk about all the different blogs that we are maintaining for this presentation. If you are new to any of our blogs (listed on my blogroll), for the next few months we are blogging about online education as part of a new AECT presentation format … the BlogTrack. There is very little guidance from AECT about how to do a successful BlogTrack because it’s never been done.

So here are some of the questions we discussed today:

1. Who is our audience right now? Each other? AECT community? The WWW? Should we be trying to attract more  readers? Or should we just be low-key and low maintenance until the convention in October?

2. How much blogging should we do at this point? We tentatively thought of a post every other week or so.

3. What is our writing style? Long and formal, but less frequent, in a more typical “academic” style, or short, informal, and more frequent in a more blogging style?

If anyone in or outside of our group has any suggestions about how to make this BlogTracks effective, share your ideas! I think it is great that AECT is considering other presentation formats different from the roundtable, poster, paper formats, but now we need to consider what we want those new formats (like a BlogTracks) to be like.

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