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.
Dear MITE6302 students,
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For example:
WebQuest, Google Docs, Voki, Mindmap, Hot Potatoes, Wiki & blog.
Please use the KWL model to scaffold your reflections.
Webquest
回覆刪除K-I have been using webquests in my teaching in order to motivate reluctant learners and create a competitive learning environment.
W-How to use them for cross-curricular work.
L-Wider range of uses and applications in different grades.
Voki
K-useful and fun tool to enhance speaking skills and also improve spelling.
W-how to make the recordings longer than a 150 words. Limited by the own multimedia.
L-how to make them look more fun and child friendly
Mindmap
K-Useful for explanations and differentiation in the classroom.
W-More advanced use.
L-to develop more complex connections
From LEUNG Sik Ling
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what do i know - experience in concept/ policies / education goals in applying IT in education or classes;
what do I want to know - how mulitimedia is applied in the age of web 2.0.
how do i find out - in lessons, search in web after lessons. deliberation of assignment.
what did i learn - tools easy to use and free to try the basics; criteria of evaluating multimedia learning resource.
how do i use what i learned - apply in school and teacher professional development; apply in curriculum planning.
what will i do next time - understand more the development and be able to read and learn multimedia resource.
I use hot potatoes to be my example. I can know how to do different types of testing such as matching through that software effectly and efficiently. In addition, I can learn that software skills' through some tutorials.
回覆刪除I can find out because I learned it in e-learning course. And I use it to do different tests. I may use it in my group project.
I'm Fido Leung.
回覆刪除What I know?
I actually know very little about the use of hypermedia in education.
What I want to know?
I want to know various tools and software which can help me to perform teaching and learning through ICT.
What I learn?
I've learn several multimedia tools which can help me to teach, but I think the most useful for me up to know should be the google form and hot potato.
I didn't know I can create online tests and survey in this simple way...
Based on the ICT tools I have learnt, I am in particular interested in Voki.
回覆刪除Voki, as I know, is a free web application which allow me to create a personalized speaking avatar. I can upload my voice or just type in some text and let the system to convert text into voice. Upon the creation, I can embed my avatar to other web applications including blogs, wiki and even my personal web pages.
Besides the normal usage, I would like to learn more about how voki is used in classroom. I have a quick search and found many different ways to use Voki in classroom. Here are the few selected links:
http://blog.voki.com/2007/07/team-voki-is-so.html
http://www.squidoo.com/voki
In my opinion, Voki is an interesting and attractive media which is still not being explored on teaching and learning.
For ICT tools learnt in MITE6302, most of the tools are related to web2.0 and free of charge. Such as
回覆刪除Voki, an online buddy which you can simply type in the text and it will speak for you on your web, so that the webpage can be read by the blind also;
PbWiki, a free platform for the participants to contribute the ideas or work together. It can be done easily because it has a template for you to edit and user-friendly. It is better to use rather and using "blogspot" as it can insert different gadgets and others popular tools, e.g. slideshows, voki, youtude etc.. So we can group all the relating stuffs together.
Hot Potatoes provide different types of activities like Cloze, Quiz, Cross, Match and Mix that could suit the 3 stages in KWL model. In "What I know" stage, we can use JMatch to access students' prior knowledge. In "What I want to know" stage, JCloze, JCross and JMix could be used to how students' strengthen and weakness and plan for what they should learn. At last, JQuiz could be used in "What did I learn" stage to check what actually have been learnt in the whole learning process.
回覆刪除I think WebQuest is a useful tool for teaching students on how to use and find information on the Internet. They need to evaluate and select the useful information on a specific topic assigned by their teacher and then build up a WebQuest.
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Google Docs
回覆刪除K - What do I know?
It seems to be a subsititute of Microsoft Word which is free of charge and people can make use of it online.
W - What do I want to know?
The use of Google Docs so that it can be fully used by students.
F - How do I find out?
From reading the help page and also the guidelines of google docs.
L - What did I learn?
It can be accessed by people more easily and they can edit the document at anytime and anywhere, once they get the right from the writer. In addition of Words which is commonly used by people. It allows peoople to send forms to the others to ask for the opinion and ideas which is more convenient for people as they do not need to make use of different software to achieve different objectives.
U - How do I use what I learned?
To work out the project with the groupmates easily and for gathering information of the research.
N - What will I do next time?
To have more deeper understanding on the use of it so that I can have the full use of it.
K - Hot Potatoes;
回覆刪除it is a set of 6 authoring tools, so that we can use them to create various exercises in different languages.
W - How to good use this tools & create a webpage.
L – We may simply type in the texts, questions, answers, etc. and make everything done easily. It’s nice.
What do I know?
回覆刪除Before the module, I had used some ICT tools like Google Docs, Blogs, Flash, Photostory, Frontpage, Scratch and Visual basic.
What do I want to know?
But these tools can't meet all my needs in teaching and learning. Some of them are complex and expensive. I need some more simple and practical tools.
What did I learn?
Now, I know more ICT tools, like WebQuest, Voki, Mindmap, HotPotatoes and Wiki. They are useful. Moreove, I also learn how to evaluate a multimedia which will help me a lot in choosing materials for teaching.
How do I use what I learned?
I use Voki for learning cantonese. It really works. When I meet some new words I type it in the Voki and know how to pronounce.
Google Docs is a good presentation tool. It is light-weight and easy to use. It allows teachers could create presentation, spreadsheet and forms easily. So teachers could focus on educational purpose.
回覆刪除It is not only for web access, it also provide mobile access. That means teachers and students could access the it all the time. As the result, teachers and student could work the the material whenever they want. It is possible to design homework and holiday works, such as summer holiday, by using google docs.
Using the KWL model, here are my thoughts:
回覆刪除K (What do I know?)
Before this course, I had some experience trying to create a WebQuest assignment in Moodle for another course. I have also used the Wiki and Blog functions in Moodle for other classes and used Google Docs for homework purposes.
W (What do I want to know?)
I want to explore different types of technology that can be used in education and to learn how to use those tools.
L (What did I learn?)
GoogleDocs: I have never used the Survey function before. It was a lot of fun to play with.
Voki: Even though this is a fun tool, it is very limited since you can only record so many words.
HotPotatoes: This is an easy tool to use to create some fun games and drill exercises for students. However, I found it very hard to create a crossword puzzle: it is hard to write good clues and arrange the words to form a crossword.
From Janny Ng
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Wiki
K – it is a useful collaborating tool
W – I need to practice the tool to get more understand on its functionality
L – ways to develop a wiki page for our group assignment.