E-Learning and Online Teaching How do I engage students in commenting on the class blog? » Stretching Forward Challenge 3 for the Student Blogging activity hosted supported by Edublogs is all about comments. While taking part in the 30 days to kick start your blog challenge, and as I continue to write here, I have realized how important comments and conversation is. However, on our class web site , students do not comment that often. I was also curious about how often my kids are commenting (and checking the class web site), so I created a poll, and embedded it in our class site. Basically, I need to find ways to engage my students more with commenting on our class site. Finally, many of my students were asking me for more information about the student blogging challenge , and so I created the image chart below to help answer some of those questions.
How to Compose a Quality Comment! The fabulous Miss Wyatt, from The Student Blogging Challenge, asked if I would guest post about commenting. I ♥ commenting and am happy to contribute! Blogging has many parts: the post, the comments, and the sidebar. If you do a good job with all of the parts, your blog will be more interesting. Today we will focus on quality comments! Content is key! Here is a video we made with tips to help you take your comments to the next level! How to Compose a Quality Comment! If Vimeo is blocked, here it is on YouTube. We like to open our comments with a greeting and end with a closing. Mrs. -For Advanced Bloggers- Some bloggers like to use HTML code to make their comments better. HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is a language. To write HTML code, use the following symbols: Important: Do not add a space between the HTML tag and the word or sentence. 1. The sentence will look like this when published: Bloggers should always proofread a comment before publishing. 2. 3. The HTML code below: Challenge #4:
A Great Study Skills Poster for Your Class Learning is a lifelong process. It is also an ongoing experience in which we get to discover new and inspiring things about our world. Some argue that with maturity comes mindful and conscious learning but regardless of age variable, thinking about learning from a metacognitive perspective (thinking about how we learn what we learn) does definitely improve the way we learn. In the visual below created by Create Innovate Explore, Rachel dissected the metathinking levels of studying and provided some of the tips on how to hone in one's study skills. I invite you to have a look and share with your students.
Science Education on the Edge · Blogging in the Science Classroom: The Worksheet is Dead One of the major changes that I made this year was to switch to using individual student blogs as the centerpiece of student assessment (the other major change was to implement standards-based grading). I started using student blogs for a number of reasons including: I was tired of grading worksheets with the same copied answers on them.I realized that these worksheets weren’t always helpful in learning content, and in fact, much of the time they got in the way of learning.Student in my classes have access to a MacBook cart whenever they are in my classroom and we have fantastically dependable wireless internet connectivity for these laptops (yay tech support!). With all these highfalutin ideals in mind, we launched our blogs at the beginning of this school year, with some fear and trembling. Very few students had done any blogging before, although a couple had existing blogs from their English classes. So how did we use the blogs? What did students blog about? Variety Plagiarism
Why Teachers Should Blog I've never been too big on Descartes. That whole sort of essentialist argument has never been for me. I'm a guy who's built furniture out of science fiction novels and travel books and who's played concerts with nothing but a roll of tin foil and a microphone. So I've never been too big on the idea that things exist because they have some fundamental essence. Consider blogs. There is no substantial qualitative definition of a blog. And in my mind what this means is that I blog and what I blog -- and how that message is received by others -- tells me what I think. And it tells me how I think. My own blog confirms my suspicions that I'm not the most polite person in the world. And that's why I think all teachers should blog. A student in my ed class last night -- a young 2nd year teacher in a Baltimore City public school -- said that he didn't feel like he had anything to offer on his blog or on Twitter. It is in a way frustrating that he doesn't realize how obviously wrong he is.
Lernen mit IT Die LEARNTEC ist die Internationale Fachmesse und Kongress für Lernen mit IT, vom 27. bis 29. Januar 2015 auf dem Messegelände in Karlsruhe. E-Learning ist nicht mehr nur ein Trend. Mittlerweile hat es sich zu einem festen Bestandteil integrierter Bildungskonzepte entwickelt. Immer mehr Unternehmen setzen auf technikgestütztes Lernen. Die stetig wachsende Zahl an Ausstellern bestätigt diese Richtung und zeigt E-Learning ist stärker als je zuvor. Die LEARNTEC bietet diesem Markt ein Zuhause. Blogs (Weblogs) *Share your own school library media blog or your favorite blogs here: --Blogs to Share At its simplest, "A blog (a portmanteau of web log) is a website where entries are commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog." Here's a short video that helps to explain blogs. What Is a Blog? Why are blogs so popular? How are blogs being used in school library media centers? for Professional Development There are literally millions of blogs now available and you can find blogs for almost any topic, profession, hobby or interest. Five to Test Drive More to Explore In addition to leaving comments on someone else's blog, you can create your own blog! Here are some blogging tools that school library media specialists are using to create blogs: Five to Test Drive Most Popular Blogging Tools for School Library Media Specialists (2008) specifically for students and teachers. More to Explore
How Blogging Transformed my Classes – Mrs. McNally's Mumblings This semester I incorporated blogging into my classes. I decided to use Edublogs and encourage each student to set up their own blog. All the individual blogs link back to mine, and students can see one another’s work on their “Dashboard” when logged in. I was apprehensive about how blogging would impact my classes at first. Obviously I worked with my students on the writing concepts I wanted them to display in their blogs, but the real magic happened when students were reading one another’s posts and interacting in the comments. I also noticed my students working harder to produce quality work. The student blogs allowed each student to show their personality in a safe manner. When I decided to start blogging, I wanted to make sure my kids would learn the same skills as the other 10th graders who were writing one long persuasive essay (for the whole semester) with a fresh and new spin on writing. Stay tuned, because I know you’re going to like what’s to come!
Magazin Lehrer Jon Bergmann, der Erfinder des Flipped-Classroom-Konzepts, erklärt in seinem Gastbeitrag, was die größten Hürden sind, wenn Lehrer das „Klassenzimmer umdrehen”. Bei diesem Unterrichtsstil eignen sich Schüler und Schülerinnen den Lernstoff per Lernvideo zu Hause an und bearbeiten dazu am nächsten Tag Aufgaben und Übungen – mit Unterstützung der Lehrkraft. Ich wurde schon mehrmals gefragt, was wohl die größten Hürden sind, die Lehrer überwinden müssen, wenn sie ihr Klassenzimmer „umdrehen‟. Meiner Erfahrung nach ist Hürde Nummer eins, dass Lehrer ihre Auffassung von der Unterrichtszeit ändern müssen. Vom alten Modell zurücktreten Wenn Lehrer das Flipped-Classroom-Konzept anwenden möchten, müssen sie sich meiner Meinung nach folgende Frage stellen: Wie kann man die Zeit im Klassenzimmer am besten nutzen? Warum ist das eine große Hürde? Meine Unterrichtsstunden waren sehr gut strukturiert und ich hatte gerne alles unter Kontrolle. Lernende lehren Alternative Bewertungsmethoden slider
AASL Blog Ideas for Using AASL Best Websites: Blendspace April 10, 2014 Posted by Heather Moorefield-Lang in Best Websites for Teaching and Learning, Technology. Blendspace, one of AASL’s 2013 Best Websites for Teaching and Learning in the Manage and Organize category, offers both teachers and librarians a very intuitive, option-rich environment for sharing content online with students and other teachers. build a simple “playlist” of websites, videos, images, and text you can share in a presentation or live lessonembed a playlist in a website or blog to share resources onlinecreate flipped or blended lessons that have students watch videos, visit websites, and respond to short quizzes to monitor participation and comprehension Blendspace first came to life in 2012 as Edcanvas, offering an easy way for educators to blend “materials together from all over the web into beautiful lessons,” as described in the Blendspace blog. Submitted by Jane Lofton: AASL Best Websites Committee Member Mission: Be nice.
Great Resources On How to Use Blogs in Your Classroom January 17, 2015 A 21st century classroom is a classroom that is multimodally structured in such a way that students, teachers and parents are engaged in synchronous and asynchronous communicational pathways throughout the school year and beyond. Such a classroom is not restricted by geographical and temporal bounds. It is open and accessible to students and parents 24/7 because part of it is based on the cloud. The virtual classroom I am talking about here is definitely not an alternative to physical, brick and mortar classroom (though in some cases such as in MOOCs and online open courseware it is) but rather and extension of the learning that takes place in the real classroom. There are several web tools and mobile apps that allow teachers to easily set up and run a classroom blog, wiki, or website. You can check this guide for more details.
Lerntheorien - Learning Theory Concept Map | WebSchulhaus Lerntheorien – Learning Theory Concept Map: Richard Millwood hat sich der Aufgabe gestellt, Lerntheorien systematisch in einer Concept Map darzustellen. Das Ergebnis ist eine vernetzte Veranschaulichung von Lerntheorien und deren Vertretern sowie den zugehörigen “Weltanschauungen” und Schlüsselkonzepten … Die Concept Map in der Version v6 (vom 30. April 2013) mit anklickbaren Wikipedia-Links gibt es auf dem Concept Map Server von Cmap. Das zugehörige DIN A3 Poster stellt Richard Millwood auf seinem Blog zur Verfügung.