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Uncertain Principles

Physics, Politics, Pop Culture

Saturday, November 08, 2003

As in "Pedagogue." Get Your Mind Out of the Gutter.

I update my booklog by hand (I didn't want to learn Blogger when I started, and it would be too difficult to change the archives over now), which means that I have to ping weblogs.com by hand when I post a new entry, to make sure that it gets reported to the appropriate aggregators and suchlike.

On those occasions (such as today, when I put up four new entries), I like to take a look at the "recently updated weblogs" list, just to see if there's anything interesting out there. Generally, this consists of scanning down the list of blog titles and looking for particularly clever names. One of the signs of how the blogging fad has blown up is that this is no longer a particularly efficient way of finding new reading material. There are a lot of weblogs out there that are simply awful.

Still, there's the occasional success. Such as today, when I stumbled across Pedablogue, a weblog by an English professor, dealing with teaching issues. He's got good posts up about writing and grading exams, the problem of grade inflation, and quiz technique. If you enjoy the pedagogy posts here, you should definitely check it out.

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