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EDUCATIONAL BLOGGING OUTLINE

I. Institut St-Joseph, Quebec City

  • A. “Virtual extension of the classroom.”
    • 1. classroom web space, where announcements are displayed and common interested work is posted.
    • 2. public space, personal communication zone for posting results of work/reflection
    • 3. private space, reserved for student thoughts and teacher guidance
  • B. Use of weblogs to support learning
    • 1. new trend sweeping the world of online learning
    • 2. young users now will bring new set of skills and attitudes when entering higher education

II. Criticisms of weblogs

  • A. “only a set of personal comments and observations.”
    • 1. The original weblogs were link-driven sites
    • 2. Personal Journals developed independently of weblogs.
III. Weblogs in Education; Henry Farrell’s five major uses
  • A. Replace the standard class webpage
    • 1. Teachers can post assignments, readings, exercises, calendars
  • B. Link Internet items that relate to the course
    • 1. instructors can monitor where students get information
  • C. Organize in-class discussions
    • 1. develop community of learners by allowing them to visit each other’s blogs in non-threatening way
    • 2. more timid students in classroom setting are more open to speaking their opinion.
    • 3. creates equality among students
  • D. Organize class seminars and provide summaries of readings
    • 1. Group Blogs make it easier for students and professors to communicate
  • E. Students may be asked to write their own blogs as part of their course grade

IV. Easy to use

  • A. Can edit or update entry without worrying about formats or HTML syntax
  • B. Basically a form with two fields
  • C. Comes with personal website for those who don’t have one
  • D. Usually free

V. Two Major Categories
A. Hosting Services

  • 1. website that gives you access to everything needed to create a blog
    • a. offers form to input entries
    • b. tools that allow you to creat template
    • c. built in accessories
    • d. hosted on hosting service
  • 2. Best Known
B. Installed Applications
  • 1. piece of software you get from provider and install on own website
  • 2. more suitable for institutional use, since access can be controlled
  • 3. Movable Type
    • a. school blogs
  • 4. allows you to customize features rather than making from ground up
  • 5. able to set up additional secrutiy system
  • 6. private blog
    • a. viewable only by teacher and student set up possibility
    • b. allows private feedback

VI. Risks

  • A. Liable issues
  • B. Threats
  • C. Vulgarity

VII. Benefits

  • A. Blogs encourage students to write more and better
    • 1. people are more aware of their posts because it will be viewed across the world
  • B. Substitution for writing a book
    • 1. break down barriers
    • 2. allow ideas to be based on merit
    • 3. ideas that are of quality filter across the Internet
    • 4. allow readers to hear day-to-day thoughts of presidential candidates, software company executives, magazine writers, etc.

VIII. Blogging is a new genre of writing

  • A. offers students a chance to
    • 1. reflect on what they are writing and thinking as they write and think it
    • 2. carry on writing about a topic over a sustained period of time
    • 3. engage readers and audiences in sustained conversation that leads to further writing and thinking

IX. Blogging facilitating classroom learning

  • A. 90% of learning is informal
  • B. Lessons that should be learned in class are learned in day-to-day activities.
  • C. Blogging can reverse this
    • 1. reading online
    • 2. engaging a community
    • 3. reflecting online is process of bringing life into learning

QUESTIONS

What are two of Henry Farrell’s five major uses for Educational Blogging?

Replace the standard class webpage and link Internet items that relate to the course.
--Amber Whitmire

Two of Farrell's five major uses for Educational blogging are a.) Organize class seminars and provide summaries of readings and b.)Oraganize in-class discussions. -Lindsey Murphy

Two of Henry Farrell’s five major uses for educational Blogging:
(A) Replace the standard class webpage
(B) Link Internet items that relate to the course
- D. Bailey

Why are some people against blogging?

Because it allows for opinions to be seen as fact as opposed to what they truly are whether they are based on fact and reality or not. It can also cause liable issues.
--Amber Whitmire

How can a blog be used in a classroom?

It should be used to extend classroom discussions so that the introverted student can still participate without being criticized. It can also be used as a way to enhance writing and be a creative outlet for projects and ideas.
--Amber Whitmire


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