B.C. Educational Technology Users Group 'Blogtalk'

EdTechPost: B.C. Educational Technology Users Group 'Blogtalk'
"http://etugblog.typepad.com/blogtalk/
Today is officially the last day so I can finally let the cat out of the bag for those who haven't seen this yet.
As I mentioned in an earlier post, for the past two weeks I've been helping to facilitate, along with 4 other educators from B.C., an 'online discussion' on possible uses of blogs in education for the B.C. Educational Technology Users Group (ETUG). Many of you will recognize at least one of the other facilitators, Brian Lamb from UBC...
Typically, ETUG discussions happen through the mailing list. During our one and only conference call to organize this online talk, the facilitators agreed that it was important to actually show the ETUG members a blog in action instead of just talking about one. To that end we set up this Typepad site which has been the focal point for the two weeks. It is a 'multi-author' blog which doesn't necessarily convey the true richness and multi-vocal nature of the blog experience, but it seemed a reasonable compromise at the time.
It has been an "interesting" experiment. Going in I already knew that the kind of 'conversations' facilitated through blogs do not end up looking the same as those facilitated through a mailing list or threaded discussion, even when everyone involved."