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Using technology tools to increase learning and expand the mind...
About Me
- Linda B.
- Third year PhD student; serious/silly; spiritually motivated; Santa Marguerita a favorite spot; silver lining in life is my family.
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6 comments:
Linda - you will do great in this class.
yes - I love it so far..looks like you will have a lot of success with this.
In reviewing the uses of blogs in education, my article identified five main categories of use: (1)Teachers use blogs to post class times, assignment notifications, suggested readings, exercises. (2)Instructors link to the Internet through blogs to post online resources that relate to their course ie. Rick Effland, from Mesa Community College, maintains a blog to pass along links and comments about topics in archaeology. Effland writes, what are in essence, short essays specifically directed toward his students. (3)Blogs are often used to organize in-class discussions. Students are also encouraged to visit and blog on others students' blogs to create a community of learners. This allows students who may not be as vocal in a classroom setting to voice his or her opinion with more ease in a cyber setting. (4)Instructors use blogs to organize class seminars and provide summaries of readings. These blogs can become group blogs---that is, an individual blog that is authored by a group of students. (5)Students can be asked to create and blog as a component of their class grade. Technologist Lane Dunlop wrote about one class at Cornell; "Each day, the students read a chunk of a book and post two parragraphs on their thoughts on the reading." This is somewhat a journal-type application of a blog.
Other educational uses of blogs might include: reflections on your teaching experience; log of teaching-training experiences; description of what worked in the classroom and what didn't; explanation of teaching insights, what you learned from another teacher; share ideas for teaching tasks or games for use in the classroom; comment on important teaching and learning issues; have students create a blog 'portfolio' of their own work; communicate with parents;provide examples of classwork; display internet resources for a specific course, providing links to pertinent sites and annotating what is relevant about those links; post photos relating to the class; publish examples of good student writing; showcase student art, poetry, and creative stories; organize a literature group/online book club;
build a class newsletter; link your class with another class somewhere else in the world; complete a webquest.
Although this is not an exhaustive list, it is lengthy! Something that I can add? Maybe create your own art gallery and display your artworks; create your own listening gallery and download music that you have composed and performed; use a blog to maintain an evaluation conversation with the instructor, letting him/her know of your progress on a particular project; posting class news updates; posting creative insights or inventions...etc. etc. etc! Of course, the educational uses of blogs can also include religious education and its particular options.
when are you going to post something else?
Mom, It looks so great!!!
I know that you will be great at all the computer stuff you PHD program requires. I love you so Much!!!
Linda, good job summarizing these thoughts from the things you read. For a while I thought you had forgotten the second part of the assignment, but I found it submitted as a comment under your first post. =) From now on, give each bit of writing its own post.
Have you thought about using your blog in any of the ways you've listed here?
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