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Blogging in (and out of) the classroom | Emerging Internet Technologies for Education. Teachers and students blogging as a part of their course work. This week we’re going to look at the use of Blogs in the classroom as a part of the educational process – blogging as a direct part of the course experience. Next week we’ll follow this up with a list of Blogs that educators may find useful. Let’s dive in… Teachers have been using blogs in instructional situations for years now, and the Internet abounds with postings and articles about blogging in the classroom.
Many of these resources are out of date, so I spent a fair amount of time finding current references that provide useful insight into blogging activities conducted by students as part of the classroom learning experience. The following links provide some insight into a variety of situations in which blogs were integrated into the course experience: “Seven Activities to do with Your Class Blog: 1. About Kelly Walsh Print This Post. Seth Godin. Blogs @ anywhere: High fidelity online communication. Blogging_to_Learn. Students as Content Providers I have spent all of last week marking exams and writing report cards. I enjoyed both activities because they have been almost completely reconfigured by blogging. I changed the exam in order to make it more accurately reflect what the students were engaged in for the last several months. One of my challenges was that the new exam had to be based on content generated by my students. The teacher, I realized, had been dethroned.
Why? Instead, having a blogging community allowed my students to create a repository of texts and ideas, all centred around the same general topic. What did I do? Their responses were fascinating. Avoiding the 5 Most Common Mistakes in Using Blogs with Students. eLearning Tips Avoiding the 5 Most Common Mistakes in Using Blogs with Students I've used blogs in my classes for five years with university graduate students. I've found them to be extremely helpful in certain circumstances but only when there is clarity for students in their use. Students who object to the inclusion of blogs in a course are usually objecting to what they perceive will be just one more task on top of a myriad of others or simply some busy work that will not benefit their learning. 1. The Other 85 Percent. 20 reasons why students should blog « On an e-journey with generation Y. Blogs as conversations.
Jeff Utecht used this diagram today in his post on the TechLearning Blog. He outlines the problem that most teachers I deal with have with blogging by saying that we have it all wrong if we think blogging is simply online journaling. I was leading a group of teachers today through some of the basic facets of Web and School 2.0 (at least as I see them), and that point came up: How is blogging different than a journal or a bound notebook that they use as a record of their academic thoughts? Aside from the obvious digital nature, here are a few key points I would use in that discussion: hyperlinks- the act of writing in a blog is the prime example of connective writing. You see the problem with blogs is we are not accustomed to conversations extending past 3 o’clock when the bell rings. Especially after hitting them with Karl Fisch's/Scott McLeod's "Did You Know" video. 7 Tips on How to Write Sticky, Memorable Blog Posts.
Learning And Teaching, Talking 'e': Beginning of a new blog. This Teaching LIfe (kinda) Metal:ED. Alan November Weblog. Halley suitt on blog gender politics. « Is it sexism or is it just me? | Main | Libraries, tech, and gender » October 24, 2003 halley suitt on blog gender politics Halley has a great post today called "The Politics of Male Blogging," in which she takes aim at Blogstreet's "100 Most Influential Blogs: ... call me crazy, but isn't the MOST STRIKING THING rather that in a new technology dominated by women so few women are in the list? Posted by Liz Lawley at 10:52 AM in General | Permalink Comments One of the most infuriating things about such lists is that they're OBJECTIVE.
This is really just the old boys network made visible and translated into hard numbers, isn't it? Posted by: Jill at Oct 24, 2003 12:18:09 PM Blogstreet's top 100 is heavily biased towards (primarily) political blogs, with a minor, as it were, in tech blogs. There's also a huge bias towards longevity in these blog rankings. Posted by: Ginger Stampley at Oct 24, 2003 2:05:47 PM Jill - I'm not at all sure they are objective.
The Monster Blog: Gender Differences at Work? « Helping After Hurricane Katrina | Main | The Need to Help After the Hurricane » September 07, 2005 Gender Differences at Work? Are there real gender-related differentiators at work? This “Working Wounded” column suggests there are. Bob Rosner, who authored the column, essentially argues that the long-standing belief that women are more community-oriented than men bleeds into the world of work in these ways: Women Think Peer, While Men Think Pyramid: While women like to relate to their coworkers, men think in terms of power hierarchy. On the one hand, I don’t necessarily agree that these differentiators always fall along gender lines. In my experience, it’s been mixed.
Share this post: Digg, StumbleUpon, del.icio.us, Facebook, Twitter, etc. Posted by Maya on September 7, 2005 at 10:34 AM | Permalink | Comments (11) | TrackBack (0) TrackBack TrackBack URL for this entry: Comments Posted by: David | Sep 8, 2005 5:13:10 AM. Drag and drop exercise. Matrix of some blog uses in education. » Blog Archive » Teacher as Blogger. I have received a number of e-mails from teachers who attended my ECOO presentation last week and are interested in how blogging can help them create communities in their classrooms. Unfortunately, I ran out of time at the end of my presentation on communities of writers and did not get a chance to talk about the impact that blogging has had on me as a teacher. I really wanted to discuss the transformation that I have been undergoing as a teacher-blogger. We often talk about all the positive impact that this technology, when used in a meaningful fashion, can have on young people but we rarely address the role of the teacher.
I have been blogging with my students for almost two years and I have learned that a community of writers can have a significant impact on the teacher. I have been commenting on how blogging has changed me on this blog but a recent comment from Quentin forced me to think about some of the really new changes. Quentin asked: ELI7006.pdf (application/pdf Object)