Learning Web 2.0 by doing it

I was lucky enough to go to Francis W. Parker school in Chicago, a private institution founded bydisciples ofJohn Dewey, who popularized "learning by doing" -- the educational philosophy that does what it says it does: gets kidslearning by doing.

That's the thrust of a post at the Knight Digital Media Center from the Newark Star-Ledger's John Hassell. Hassell explains how he learned so much more than he thought he knew once he started blogging. Says he:

...blogging is worth doing—even if you do it badly, even if it means having to find the odd pre-dawn hour to post something once or twice a week.

OK here's a better live blogging platform

Over at TechCrunch, Erick Schonfeld writes about ScribbleLive: Two Guys In Canada Launch Sweet Liveblogging Platform. Says he:

...it is definitely an improvement over typing in Wordpress and constantly hitting save, and forcing readers to constantly hit the refresh button.