2010年3月9日 星期二
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Blogs in Education
What is Blog?
A Web log, usually shortened to blog, is a set of personal commentaries on issues the author deems important. It contains text, images, and links to related information on other blogs, web pages, and media. Readers can reply easily and thus participate in a discussion in which they share knowledge and reflect on the topic. Blogs promote open dialogue and encourage community building in which both the bloggers and commenters exchange opinions, ideas, and attitudes. Entries are posted in reverse chronological order.
Implications for Educational uses
Blogging is the new way to express oneself and have an authentic audience.
The implications for students include writing about issues and thus improving writing skills, learning from each other, thinking through topics thoroughly enough to offer an opinion or add information, peer editing, finding a community of others interested in the same topic, and becoming confident in sharing, what they know.
Teachers can create blog pages to communicate with students and parents about content and to have an ongoing open dialogue about coursework.
Administrators can replace printed announcements and meeting agendas with blogs that allow for communication with the staff.
Warning
The danger is that blogs that students find when researching a topic may contain highly subjective or inaccurate information. However, because blogs attract an audience by having a good reputation, the audience itself may serve as a filter to protect a blog’s credibility by making sure that commenters don’t post inaccurate of offensive remarks.
Popular blogging tools in education
Blogger (www.blogger.com)
WordPress (www.wordpress.com)
Drupal (www.drupal.org)
Class Blogmeister (http://classblogmeister.com)
Gaggle Blogs (www.gaggle.net)
Task
At the end of this lesson, Pleaseuse this Blog page to share your reflection on this lesson.
You may need to use the extended KWL model to scaffold your reflection.
Reference
Kuhlthau, C., Maniotes, L. and Caspari, A. (2007). Guided Inquiry: Learning in the 21st Century, Libraries Unlimited.
A Web log, usually shortened to blog, is a set of personal commentaries on issues the author deems important. It contains text, images, and links to related information on other blogs, web pages, and media. Readers can reply easily and thus participate in a discussion in which they share knowledge and reflect on the topic. Blogs promote open dialogue and encourage community building in which both the bloggers and commenters exchange opinions, ideas, and attitudes. Entries are posted in reverse chronological order.
Implications for Educational uses
Blogging is the new way to express oneself and have an authentic audience.
The implications for students include writing about issues and thus improving writing skills, learning from each other, thinking through topics thoroughly enough to offer an opinion or add information, peer editing, finding a community of others interested in the same topic, and becoming confident in sharing, what they know.
Teachers can create blog pages to communicate with students and parents about content and to have an ongoing open dialogue about coursework.
Administrators can replace printed announcements and meeting agendas with blogs that allow for communication with the staff.
Warning
The danger is that blogs that students find when researching a topic may contain highly subjective or inaccurate information. However, because blogs attract an audience by having a good reputation, the audience itself may serve as a filter to protect a blog’s credibility by making sure that commenters don’t post inaccurate of offensive remarks.
Popular blogging tools in education
Blogger (www.blogger.com)
WordPress (www.wordpress.com)
Drupal (www.drupal.org)
Class Blogmeister (http://classblogmeister.com)
Gaggle Blogs (www.gaggle.net)
Task
At the end of this lesson, Pleaseuse this Blog page to share your reflection on this lesson.
You may need to use the extended KWL model to scaffold your reflection.
Reference
Kuhlthau, C., Maniotes, L. and Caspari, A. (2007). Guided Inquiry: Learning in the 21st Century, Libraries Unlimited.
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