Blogs For Teaching and Learning

Blogs for Teaching and
Learning
Something more than just technology
Francesc Balagué
University of Barcelona
www.blocdeblocs.net
Blogs for Teaching and Learning – Something more than just technology
I – Introduction
II – Educational uses
III – Getting started

I
introduction
>> European Higher Education Area
- New teaching and learning paradigm

Student centred approach
Competence based
- New roles of teachers

students
institutions
“Our students have changed radically.

Today’s students are no longer the people
our educational system was designed to
teach.
Mark Prensky, “Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants”
>> Web 2.0
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web20
>> Web 2.0
“ …the philosophy of mutually maximizing

collective intelligence and added value for
each participant by formalized and
dynamic information sharing and creation.
Högg, R. Meckel, M., Stanoevska-Slabeva, K., Martignoni, R., 2006. Overview of

business models for Web 1.0 communities. Proceedings of GeNeMe, p.23-37.
>> Web 2.0
http://www.slideshare.net/rdesalvo/blogs-and-wikis-for-beginners/
>> Web 2.0

To be defined as social software, a tool
must meet at least two of the following
conditions:
It allows people to communicate, collaborate
and build a community online
It can be syndicated, shared, reused or remixed
It allows people to easily learn from and capitalize

on the behaviour or knowledge of others
Meredith Gorran Farkas

>> Web 2.0

Characteristics of social software:
Easy content creation and sharing
Online collaboration
Conversations
Capitalizing the wisdom of crowds
Transparency
Portability
Meredith Gorran Farkas
why
weblogs?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stabilo-boss/93136022
>> Use of Weblogs

Blogs are one of the most representative
tools of Web 2.0. They offer flexibility,
adaptability, and integration with other
tools.
Blogs in Plain English
http://commoncraft.com/blogs
Technorati State of the blogsphere 2008

http://www.technorati.com/blogging/state-of-the-blogosphere/
II
educational uses
Technologies do NOT change

teaching & learning,
but can help us to introduce
new methodologies and
learning environments
>> Blogs in education
Blogs support: Possibilities

of Web 2.0
knowledge building tools
reflection
monitoring
sharing
archiving
>> Bloom’s Taxonomy
experimenting, monitoring
designing, planning, producing
organising, attributing, integrating
implementing, executing
summarising, inferring, paraphrasing
recognising, identifying, retrieving

>> Using blogs in the classroom

To share opinions and learning.
To see knowledge as interconnected.
To facilitates reflection and evaluation.
To promote creative writing.
To develop a digital portfolio.
To teach responsible public writing.
http://anne.teachesme.com/2007/01/17/rationale-for-educational-blogging (Davis 2007)

>> Blogs facilitate…

… teachers to provide feedback and to monitor
students’ performance more effectively.
… self-assessment and continued assessment.
… personal reflection.
… tracking all the process (by students

themselves and by teachers).
III
getting started
>> Getting started

>> Tips for getting started with blogs

Start exploring with the tool, what you can
do, how does it work, etc.
Seek help from colleagues who have tried it
Target the tech-heads with maturity in your

class to help others
Read other educators’ blogs; how they use

categories, how they organize the information,
how often they blog, how they give
instructions to students, etc.
>> Using blogs requires…
… a different temporal and spatial organization

(it would be different in an online environment
than a face-to-face one)
… to learn a new tool (technologically and

methodologically)
… to anticipate the workload required to adapt the

tasks
… to like writing
>> Some useful links

>> wordpress admin panel

>> Blogger.com
>> Blogger admin panel

>> Some other Blog platforms:
B2Evolution
http://b2evolution.net/
LiveJournal
http://www.livejournal.com/
Edublogs
http://edublogs.org/
Twitter (microblogging)
http://twitter.com
>> and…
Add widgets to your blog:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OVRlXn9mAs
Syndicate, get updates

automatically
www.feedreader.com
www.bloglines.com
www.google.com/reader
References:
- Socio-Constructivism on EdutechWiki
http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Socio-constructivism
- Bloom, B.S (1984) Taxonomy of educational
objectives, Pearson Education, Allyn and Bacon,
Boston, MA.
- Jonassen, D. (1994) Thinking technology:
towards a constructivist design model,
Educational Technology, 34(4), 34-37.
- Social Software in Higher Education
http://www.slideshare.net/librarianmer/social-software-in-higher
- Two ways to integrate technology in our

teaching
http://www.slideshare.net/jasondenys/wikis-and-blogs-in-educa
References:
- Matrix of some uses of blogs in education
http://www.edtechpost.ca/wordpress/2003/10/09/Matrix-of-som
- Blogger & Wordpress chart

http://pulsed.blogspot.com/2007/07/blogger-wordpress-chart.ht
- Educational Blogs’ Slides at Slideshare
http://www.slideshare.net/search/slideshow?q
=education%2Bblogs&submit=post&commit=Search
- Avoiding the 5 Most Common Mistakes in Using
Blogs with Students
http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68089/
Dank jullie wel

Thank you very much
francesc balagué
[email protected]
www.blocdeblocs.net
Photo Leave: http://www.flickr.com/photos/montanaraven/10693295/

Photo Laptops: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kmtucker/507130019
Photo Web2.0: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stabilo-boss/93136022
Photo Train: http://flickr.com/photos/brianlewandowski/2115495443
Photo Breach: http://flickr.com/photos/8628950@N06/2405895532

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III – Getting started

>> European Higher Education Area

- New teaching and learning paradigm

- New roles of teachers

“Our students have changed radically.

>> Web 2.0

>> Web 2.0

“ …the philosophy of mutually maximizing

Högg, R. Meckel, M., Stanoevska-Slabeva, K., Martignoni, R., 2006. Overview of

>> Web 2.0

>> Web 2.0

It can be syndicated, shared, reused or remixed

It allows people to easily learn from and capitalize

Meredith Gorran Farkas

>> Web 2.0

Capitalizing the wisdom of crowds

>> Use of Weblogs

Blogs in Plain English

Technorati State of the blogsphere 2008

Technologies do NOT change

>> Blogs in education

Blogs support: Possibilities

>> Bloom’s Taxonomy

designing, planning, producing

organising, attributing, integrating

summarising, inferring, paraphrasing

recognising, identifying, retrieving

>> Using blogs in the classroom

To see knowledge as interconnected.

To facilitates reflection and evaluation.

To promote creative writing.

To develop a digital portfolio.

To teach responsible public writing.

http://anne.teachesme.com/2007/01/17/rationale-for-educational-blogging (Davis 2007)

>> Blogs facilitate…

… self-assessment and continued assessment.

… tracking all the process (by students

>> Getting started

>> Tips for getting started with blogs

Seek help from colleagues who have tried it

Target the tech-heads with maturity in your

Read other educators’ blogs; how they use

>> Using blogs requires…

… a different temporal and spatial organization

… to learn a new tool (technologically and

… to anticipate the workload required to adapt the

>> Some useful links

>> wordpress admin panel

>> Blogger admin panel

>> Some other Blog platforms:

Add widgets to your blog:

Syndicate, get updates

- Two ways to integrate technology in our

- Blogger & Wordpress chart

Dank jullie wel

Photo Leave: http://www.flickr.com/photos/montanaraven/10693295/

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