Blogs in Education
June 25, 2005
Talks on adopting technology, specifically blogging, into education. Tomorrow's education. Using blogs as an educational tool and part of the curriculum. Awareness and understanding will lead to adoption. Persuasion - it will bring skills to kids (one level is writing, another is interacting with topics, the other is most definitely technology). Adoption - learn from others. "In their weblogs, students exercise critical thinking, take creative risks, and make sophisticated use of language and design elements. In doing so, the students acquire skills that may be useful to them in both scholarly and professional contexts."
What about adoption? What does it do?
What about adoption? What does it do?
- media literacy - course information management
- make those lessons extend
- getting people involved on other levels (great for shy, ESL or others to open up)
- summarize readings so they can participate more in class
- give project info
- Group blogging - user-centred learning
Labels: Blogging, Fine Art of Blogging
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 6/25/2005 08:41:00 AM,
SCSU Scholars
June 09, 2005
King Banaian’s blog site SCSUScholars is very useful for students of economics who want to broaden their intellectual horizon. Apart from discussing events of interest at St. Cloud State University and elsewhere, King Banaian has published classroom notes for his students. He says, “These are notes written after rather than before a class I taught over 23 May - 11 June 2005. I have an unwritten outline for each class, but occasionally the class veers towards a topic I did not plan on but decided to incorporate. I journal these after class to have a record of what was said.” These notes are a wonderful resource for any economic student. See the notes here.
King Banaian is the head of the Economics Department at St. Cloud State University, Minnesota.
Thanks to Assistant Professor Dr. Douglas Bass (at the University of St. Thomas, in the state of Minnesota) for visiting Lahore School of Economics Blogsite and sending link to is the SCSUScholars.
King Banaian is the head of the Economics Department at St. Cloud State University, Minnesota.
Thanks to Assistant Professor Dr. Douglas Bass (at the University of St. Thomas, in the state of Minnesota) for visiting Lahore School of Economics Blogsite and sending link to is the SCSUScholars.
Labels: Blogging, Fine Art of Blogging
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 6/09/2005 08:44:00 AM,
Blogs in Higher Ed: Personal Voice as Part of Learning
April 07, 2005
The use of Internet technology to facilitate interaction, communication, and collaboration is well documented but its use in establishing and developing "personal voice" as part of learning is also now being addressed through the use of blogs. Finding personal voice as a pedagogical method is important to establish learner identity and focus, and journaling has long been recognized as an effective way to provide space for this to occur. The blog, however, provides a context in which personal voice can be "published" by the student, which means that attention is given to content, relevancy, and connection with learning outcomes to a higher degree than a traditional journal submission. The idea that more than one person will view the work is quite powerful in promoting a sense of ownership from the student. Teachers can also benefit from "hearing" the personal voice of their students to begin to really understand the learning path of each student through a course. The above is the opening paragraph in an article, Blogs in Higher Ed: Personal Voice as Part of Learning, published by Ruth Reynard in eLearning Dialogue. Here is the summary and recommendations from the article:
- Blogging must be integrated early in the course design and must be clearly connected to the course outcomes before it can become anything more than just an extra task for the students.
- Grading does seem to motivate the students, but it seems to be more effective to grade according to effort in relevancy to course content and outcomes than simply on numbers of submissions.
- There is an issue with privacy, particularly with older students. This should be addressed by emphasizing how to secure and share entries.
- Instructors need time to evaluate the importance of self-reflection as a methodological approach in learning as well as the value of integrating personal voice in the learning context. Otherwise the exercise will be perceived as futile to the students.
Read more here.
Labels: Blogging, Fine Art of Blogging, HEC
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 4/07/2005 11:18:00 AM,
Lahore School Blog Site: Refresh
October 04, 2004
This blog has crossed the 1000th unique visit mark over this weekend. What is more, the navigation of the site has been made easy. Send your feedback and contributions (along with photographs) to sajshirazi@gmail.com or drop a hard copy in the Editor’s Cottage (J-8).
Labels: Blogging, Fine Art of Blogging
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 10/04/2004 01:25:00 PM,
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