How have I used blogging as an educator?<\/p>\n
It’s not useful for me for class management. I teach in a small school, with a relatively small number of students. Two or three classes don’t spark a need for me to manage them online – it would just be more work in my case.<\/p>\n
I could use it for collaboration, but I haven’t yet. The only thing close to collaboration that my students have done is more of a discussion item – students viewing posts of others and leaving comments for them. I also will visit posts and comment on them in some form.<\/p>\n
The main reasons I have used blogs in the past are:
\n– to create an e-portfolio for writing; to have a record of work and progress that can move and grow with them
\n– to motivate unmotivated writers and encourage them to improve the quality of what they do (or don’t do!). I had mixed results. I had one in particular who was a student on an IEP – he wrote so much better and so much more online. Conversely, I had a couple of high-achieving students who wrote poorer and wrote less because they just didn’t like technology or blogging.<\/p>\n
I guess this would put me on the lower-quality end of what I could do with blogs, but for the simple tasks I wanted to do with them, it has suited my purposes.<\/p>\n
As a student, the jury is out – I’m currently in this course, my first blog-based one. It is OK so far, but my main criticism is the discussion \/ posting. I much rather a bulletin\/message board style, where threads are separate, and you can see when something new has been posted in each thread. I find navigating through posts (and especially finding who has replied to me) in our course to be more work than it needs to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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