Archive for the 'blogging' Category
And its goodbye from me
I’ve finally made the move to blogger. Edbublogs was fine for a while but I find blogger a sleeker and slicker beast.
My new blog can be found at : http://drandrewoliver.blogspot.com/
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Blogs in education part 2
Okay. Onwards in my quest to find examples of using blogs for learning and teaching. I’m particularly after straight forward examples of their use for which I can then summarise and pass on to those of you who are interested.
Stuart Glogoff’s article ‘Instructional Blogging: Promoting Interactivity, Student-Centered Learning, and Peer Input’ (Web Link, as mentioned [...]
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Blogs in education part 1
Okay, so as promised some more on blogging – their use and assessment of. To help me along I found a very useful resource called ‘Instructional Blogging: Promoting Interactivity, Student-Centred Learning, and Peer Input’ by Stuart Glogoff, (link). There are some very interesting and very useful methods outlined here relating to how he incorporated blogging [...]
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Assessing blogs
How do we assess blogs in teaching? In the past I have tended to focus on the benefits blogging can bring to education. And this is an area I will continue to focus on. However for the next few weeks I’m going to look at assessing student blogging as an academic exercise. I’m not saying [...]
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Poetry, Maths and Growing Posts
I like the latest post from the Sargent Park Math Zone (Web Link) which is a classroom blog hub for grade 8 students (14 years old) in Canada.
What’s happening here is that Chris Harbeck is teaching maths through the medium of poetry. The students have been asked to create 5 poems describing integers. What’s interesting [...]
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Blogging from the student perspective
I recently posted a blog about the 5 most common mistakes tutors make when using blogs in education (you can read it here). Interestingly a student responded (rosevibe), agreeing with the issues raised and also adding more food for thought particularly regarding as to how staff might motivate the students.
Quote “To be told that you [...]
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Interesting statistics on blog reading and YouTube
Hi folks
A couple of interesting things to ponder:
comScore have reported that more than 14 million U.K. Internet users have visited a blog in August (Web Link) 2008 and that 27 million people watched more than 3 billion videos online in the UK in June 2008, (Web Link). YouTube accounts for approximately half of these figures [...]
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Avoiding the 5 Most Common Mistakes in Using Blogs with Students
By Ruth Reynard
Great article via Campus Technology (Web Link)
Instead of the usual tips for using blogs in education the author presents a list of the most common mistakes. As one commentator states this can be extended to other uses of learning technology, particularly wikis.
1. Ineffective Contextualization
One of the more effective uses of blogging is for [...]
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Pedagogy 2.0
Transforming Pedagogy through Social Software by Catherine McLoughlin and Mark J. W. Lee Web Link
Short paper which briefly looks at the opportunities offered by web 2.0 technology (wikis, blogging etc.) in terms of enabling students to become content creators. Consideration is given the notion of ‘pedagogy 2.0’ which is essentially a learner centred environment founded [...]
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Time for Scribes
I noticed that Lynn Bhania has got her First year School of Education students blogging. Check them out via Blog Central – some great stuff there.
Anyway in relation blogging I thought I would link to this entry posted in the Sargent Park Math Zone – which school class blog (US). Basically the blog is used [...]
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