Blog and Wikis.
Drawing from class discussion on Blog and Wikis which as become “democratic tools” for lover of blogging and Wikis for creating and sharing knowledge. In educational system blog are about communication, sharing experience, reflect on it, and then write about. Educational blogging is now significant and also allow students, teachers, administrators, and other to participate on educational process.
My initial reaction to weblog is Fantastic. However, I haven’t use blog before so I was very interested to start broadcasting, sharing my favorite passion with the classmate. I look forward to create more content of all shapes and size and share communication with other. I have seen some teachers in my school district letting their student using blog and contribute to class assign subject. Therefore, using Wikis and blog for educational purpose is good in terms of pedagogy and curriculum.
On the hand, Wikis and the others have been around for few years now, although I have not created any Wikis but have use Wikipedia, Wikisbooks, Wikisnews, and Wikisquotes. All these have helped are lot of students doing their assignments in school. Wikis are good tools like Weblogs, podcasting, and RSS that have potential to transform education into TechEd.
Nowadays, teachers are now using blog in the classroom to communicate with students, parents sometimes participates in posting various topics and also student post their assignment. These have give student opportunity to find “voice” and express their ideas.
Generally, the ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Blogging combined the personal web page with tools to make linking to other pages easier. There are various consequences in blogging sensitive subject that violate ethic of blogging.
References:
Alessi, S.M. & Trollip, S.R. (2001). Multimedia for learning: Methods and development (3rd ed.) Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon.
Richardson, W. (2006). Blogs, Wikis, podcastings, and other powerful web tools for classrooms. Sage Publication, CA.
Ruffner’s, J. W. & Woodward, K.G. (2006). Computer-based and web-based applications
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Lekan,
All I could do was smile as I read about how simple it is to update or correct mistakes on blogs. I began reminiscing about the many class newsletters I sent out over the years with typos or info that was obsolete--of course this was after I had run 100 copies of it. Boy, if I only had the ease sending that information out with a blog then. Oh well, on to the future.
Now that you have had some personal experiencing with blogging is it more than or less than you thought it would be?
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