Thursday, June 28, 2007
Already blogging in classroom
Having read the Richardson text, I see now that I have been blogging within a class web page made possible by the online course managment system software my employer bought. Each computer lab session my students have, they sign in and log on to my page. There I greet them with a very brief greeting-type message that I change with each class time we are in there. Then, they go a page where they pull up my name, check the date, and read my assignment for them for that day. Often I will have inserted links into the assignment page for speedier referencing. I have also sometimes attached a file from Word, or even a PowerPoint. So, no paper! Then, as with the truer "blogging", I post a message on the forum. They read it and respond to it. It is usually a thought-provoking query, but I do not expect quantity of answer, so much as quality. Author Richardson underscores this as well. The students get to view one another's responses. I hope with my understanding of the class assigned readings that I can refine this process, that I can more fully develop a truer web enhanced learning environment strategy from the outset of our computer lab instruction.
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What you do with your class seems very intresting and kind of what I will be attempting this coming school year with my classes. I am going to attempt to have my students use blogs to create an online log of their activities and test results. Hopefully everything goes smoothly. I have been using this website to help me understand the creation portion of blogging:
http://www.blogsavvy.net/
I thank you for the site referral.
Wow - that's great! You're already blogging! Do you have some sort of rubric you use to assess their responses or is that not appropriate for what you're asking them to do. I like the idea of presenting them with a thought provoking question or statement in a blog.
To get your students blogging more - you could show them other students' blogs and connect them in that way.
Jeremy, thanks for the hyperlink!
-Dr. Fritz
To be clear, Dr. Fritz, I guess it is a class blog. All I know is, the students are reading one another's responses all in one place. They individually do not have blogs. I have assigned them-just to "test"my practical use of this tool-to return from a site to which they had been directed by the link I provided, and to list 2 adaptations of that animal in their "post." But now that I think further, couldn't I instruct each of them to "Create New Post", have them deposit a message, and then have everyone answer everyone else's post??? NO, I've definitely not made it to the rubric instrument yet. Last year was a "run through" for me, I've got my eyes on BIGGER sites this year.
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