Learning through Blogging: Graduate Student Experiences:
Robert Davison, an Associate Professor of Information Systems at the City University of Hong Kong, has found blogs to be an essential tool even in the traditional graduate-level classroom. Among the benefits: On blogs, students tend to document that which is understood tacitly, and often learn from each other through reading and commenting on entries.

This article details some of the same ideas I have been driving towards. Blogs help make tacit information explicit. It helps shy people gain a voice. It provides a way to communicate in a novel fashion. In this setting, it elevates a study group onto the web, enhancing its ability to teach students.

I’m at the O’Reilly GSP conference in San Diego. Lots of power strips but no power for the first session. They did get them going at the break. It is no fun to be at a meeting with no power and watch your computer’s battery just go down. Lots of outlets is what we crave.