- Blogging for Learning: Mulling it Over. The Edublog Awards. The State of Educational Blogging in 2012. We’re often asked for detailed information on how educators are using blogs.
So we’ve surveyed educators on their use of blogs and combined it with benefits of blogging responses. Here’s what they’ve told us! Click on a link below to go to the section you want to read: Back to Top About the Survey The survey was conducted from May 5 – July 25, 2012 and a total of 259 respondents took part in the survey. The survey was promoted via Twitter, Facebook and through blog posts. Who are the respondents? We started with basic inquiries about our respondents’ background to learn more about their role and their educational institution.
Majority of the response were by teachers (72%) followed by students (12%). Most were based at public schools or institutions (74 %). Roughly a third were based in Elementary/Primary schools (41%) followed by Middle/Junior (27%) and High School (23%). 40% of respondents were based at educational institutions that have or will soon have a one to one device program.
The State of Educational Blogging in 2012. We’re often asked for detailed information on how educators are using blogs.
So we’ve surveyed educators on their use of blogs and combined it with benefits of blogging responses. Here’s what they’ve told us! Click on a link below to go to the section you want to read: Back to Top About the Survey The survey was conducted from May 5 – July 25, 2012 and a total of 259 respondents took part in the survey. The survey was promoted via Twitter, Facebook and through blog posts. Who are the respondents? We started with basic inquiries about our respondents’ background to learn more about their role and their educational institution.
Majority of the response were by teachers (72%) followed by students (12%). Most were based at public schools or institutions (74 %). Roughly a third were based in Elementary/Primary schools (41%) followed by Middle/Junior (27%) and High School (23%). A Class of Six Year Olds Inviting the World into Their Classroom. The Influence of Classroom Blogging on Elementary Student Writing. Literacy is social in nature, and just as people construct meaning in social relationships through conversations with one another, the world of literacy is one in which we continually respond and react to others.
It is critical that students are given the opportunity to engage in meaningful conversations about writing. Researchers have asserted that teachers need to devote time to explicitly teach students how to engage in meaningful discussions with others about their writing, just as they devote time to writing instruction. More recently, blogs have been used in classrooms as a new approach for teaching writing. Blogs can be a method for focusing on student writing growth, and can be exciting for generating discussion, reflection, social networking, and writing across disciplines.
In McGrail and Davis' study, the researchers selected a case study approach involving student and teacher interviews and classroom observations. Teach Blogging Not Blogs. As I was preparing to give a presentation for CyberCamp, a summer professional development experience I created in the summer of 2008, I tried to put together everything that I had learned about blogging, or, as I sometimes call it, connective writing.
The document below is that summary. I find that I return to it again and again when I need to explain blogging - either some of the practical, writerly considerations, or my rationale for it as a classroom practice. I thought it might be useful in this space. Each section is a link to a blog post combined with a summary of that post as well as a quotation of the relevant material from the blog. Bud & Blogs 2.0 - February 2005 - A post I wrote three years ago that I keep coming back to. There is a "blog," a noun, which is what this space is called. Types of Posts - May 2006 - A post I wrote for my speech students to help them think about the types of writing that they might choose to do on their blogs. 1.
Framing Blogging - February 2007. Welcome to Comments4Kids.