What is a Blog?
Will Richardson and Anne Davis list some of the things they have learned using weblogs in the classroom.
From Will:
"Teaching blogs to students takes a plan. What do you want to achieve? What can you do with a blog that you can’t do some other way? Effective use of Weblogs in the classroom comes when teachers have planned well."
What can you do with a blog that you can't do some other way? is exactly the point I brought up in one of my previous postings.
From Anne:
"I usually have a class weblog to go along with the student blogs. I start the students out as contributing/junior authors on my blog for a short period before empowering them with their own blogs. This really helps them get a sense of what it is all about."
"I’ve learned that you need to really think about what it is that you want to accomplish. It’s not a good idea to just jump out there and let the kids begin blogging. You have to really know your educational goals and keep coming back to that vision. Develop a plan that can be altered and constantly tweaked as you go."
This is what I am trying to do - figure out what I want from blogging with my class.
I like how Anne introduces it to her students by making them Junior Authors on the class weblog.
Will Richardson presented at NECC and here is something from his Weblogg-ed Presentation Links that is going to help me figure out exactly how to do my class blog. Time to go think about all of this....
From Will:
"Teaching blogs to students takes a plan. What do you want to achieve? What can you do with a blog that you can’t do some other way? Effective use of Weblogs in the classroom comes when teachers have planned well."
What can you do with a blog that you can't do some other way? is exactly the point I brought up in one of my previous postings.
From Anne:
"I usually have a class weblog to go along with the student blogs. I start the students out as contributing/junior authors on my blog for a short period before empowering them with their own blogs. This really helps them get a sense of what it is all about."
"I’ve learned that you need to really think about what it is that you want to accomplish. It’s not a good idea to just jump out there and let the kids begin blogging. You have to really know your educational goals and keep coming back to that vision. Develop a plan that can be altered and constantly tweaked as you go."
This is what I am trying to do - figure out what I want from blogging with my class.
I like how Anne introduces it to her students by making them Junior Authors on the class weblog.
Will Richardson presented at NECC and here is something from his Weblogg-ed Presentation Links that is going to help me figure out exactly how to do my class blog. Time to go think about all of this....
Why Weblogs in the Classroom?What is blogging (the verb)?
- Writing
- Publishing
- Audience
- Linking
- Reflecting
- Archiving
- Posting assignments. (Not blogging)
- Journaling, i.e. “This is what I did today.” (Not blogging)
- Posting links (Not blogging)
- Links with descriptive annotation, i.e. “This site is about…” (Not really blogging either, but getting close depending on the depth of the description.)
- Links with analysis that gets into the meaning of the content being linked. (A simple form of blogging.)
- Reflective, meta-cognitive writing on practice without links. (Complex writing, but simple blogging, I think. Commenting would probably fall in here somewhere.)
- Links with analysis and synthesis that articulates a deeper understanding or relationship to the content being linked and written with potential audience response in mind. (Real blogging)
- Extended analysis and synthesis over a longer period of time that builds on previous posts, links and comments. (Complex blogging)
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