Blogs & glogs
- 1. Blogs & Glogs Teaching & Learning Spring School SNHS 30/01/13
- 2. Blogs What were my reasons for using Blogs? What is a Blog? enhance visibility of Short for weblog learning process “A blog is a type of web page that is empower students to simple to create and write and cite disseminate and “write to learn” and “learn to write” that is used as a form of online journal by promote student millions of users” engagement, (Mason & Rennie interactivity and 2008 p. 62) collaboration formative feedback opportunities
- 3. Examples of my Blogs
- 5. Student Views What student’s liked about blog What student’s didn’t like about the blog Workload manageability Group work difficulties Improved writing & research skills Time commitment Viewing classmates posts Assessment weighting Receiving feedback helped Hard to do blog while on progress academic writing placement Diversity and scope of subject Restrictive topics and diverse matter sources
- 7. Student Views “Blogging – a new and fun concept” What student’s liked What student’s didn’t like Enhanced knowledge of Finding a starting point research Broad topics New way of learning Assessment weighting Structure, focus, and time frame Time commitment Interactivity/Collaborations No „extra‟ self-directed time Accessibility Easier as time progressed Archive
- 8. Student’s Words “I do feel more confident now in reading a journal article and being able to identify the methodology, data collection and analysis and other crucial parts, not just the abstract!” “I certainly am less 'bogged down' by the concepts within research and critiquing of the same” “for me it was a new way of learning. I found it gave an informal way of learning that was interesting and the interaction between colleagues made it enjoyable. The fact that you could log on at anytime also made it easier especially while on placement when you could be working days or nights” “overall enjoyed taking part” “would like to see more use of it”
- 9. Student’s Words “I think this blog has been a great help but challenging at the same time! It has been a while since I have done research and this blog helped me focus, without it I probably wouldn't have opened a book!! Having to actually sit down and specifically focus on one topic has been very beneficial in helping me understand research and the process involved. It has been interesting to read other peoples blogs and their views. It feels great to have it finished, it was a bit time consuming but definitely a great help”
- 13. Glogs Why did I decide to use glogster? What is a Glog? Trigger to stimulate student enquiry Glogster http:www.glogster.com/ “To achieve this drive to write science teachers need to generate Interactive multi- inspiring writing prompts and assignments that media poster are authentic and meaningful” (Sawmiller 2010 p. 46) Incorporate text, visual, audio and Interactivity – student video clips engagement
- 15. 1. Brainstorm the Glog 2. Submit 6. Feedback group blog in-class post 5. Submit 3. Undertake blog independent comment study 4. Submit individual blog posts
- 17. Criteria 0-39 40-59 60-79 80-100 Unsatisfactory Satisfactory Good Excellent Ideas and Content Posts irrelevant Posts some previous Posts factual content; posts Posts creative and innovative information; posts show content; Posts provide provide moderate insight, content; posts provide no evidence of insight, minimal insight, understanding and comprehensive insight, understanding or understanding and reflective thought about understanding, and reflective reflective thought about reflective thought about the topic thought about the topic the topic the topic Post and No or infrequent Participate one a week; Participate 1-2 a week but Participates frequently and Comments participation; No or few posts are slightly below posts are not distributed; consistently; postings posts; No or few average expected for posts are slightly above exceed module expectations; comments on other module; posts and average expected for posts are excellently posts; Postings below comments are superficial module; posts are well developed; comments show expectations for module contributions to the developed and comments analysis of other posts and discussion elaborate on existing extend the discussion in new postings directions Writing Quality Posts and comments Posts and comments Posts and comments are Posts and comments are free contain numerous include some largely free of grammatical, of grammatical, spelling or grammatical, spelling or grammatical, spelling or spelling or punctuation punctuation errors punctuation errors punctuation errors errors References and No or few references or Incorporates some Incorporates adequate Uses extensive references to Evidence support for statements references for statements references from a variety of a variety of literature, made; posts do not made; however mostly literature sources; readings, journals, textbooks, include accurate properly drawn from one source of textbooks, journals, which etc. in ways that strongly formatted citations evidence (e.g. one substantiate information support the subject matter textbook); posts do not presented; postings include discussed; postings include include accurate, properly some minor inaccurately accurate properly formatted formatted citations formatted citations citations
- 19. Questions & Reflections
Editor's Notes
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