What Blogs Have You Created?
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Blog is the shortened term for “weblog”
Educational Philosophy Blog:
A. Pedagogical reasons
Darren Kuropatwa brilliantly reflects on his blogging process. He uses his blog called A Difference to talk about blogging and to inspire educators to try new technology tools. In this post titled "A New Movement", Darren uses a table to show how his blogging process has evolved. He talks about his successes and things he will do differently in the future. He can be an inspiration because of his willingness to put his experience out there for those of us who want to follow his steps. Thanks Darren!
That's what attracts me: bringing together the serious academic business inside the classroom with the dynamic and often creative world they inhabit outside the classroom via their computers and cell phones—a world connected to their families and friends in extended communities. Learning is, after all, intensely social, and blogs as social software are all about connecting and communicating.
"This Time, It's Personal: Elevating Creative Discourse Through Student Blogs"
The blog is great for the classroom. Students enjoy being web composers and not just consumers. Have you seen or thought of other applications for blogging in education? In your school, community, circle of peers; have you seen or thought of a way that blogs can make an impact? Share your ideas here. Don't forget to include links of your own or those that you find interesting.
When you bring blogs into your courses—at least the way I am talking about—you have to move in new directions. There’s no choice but to embrace a connected, collaborative learning model, one that puts the students and the subject matter in direct contact with one another within a real-world context. We blogging teachers give up a whole lot of control. Authority shifts from the teacher in the center to the entire group in a noded network. You cannot always predict outcomes—what kids will write on the blogs, what they will learn, how the chemistry of the learning group and the interaction with the outside world will contribute to the experience. How terrifying, how risky—how like life.
We must educate our kids about the dangers on the internet, not shield them from those dangers. If parents and teachers don't work together to educate students about the internet, who will?
If you're students are like mine, then they want to know "How much is this assignemnt worth?" or "Will this be graded?"
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