Comments on: Using Blogs To Teach http://www.blogherald.com/2006/12/21/using-blogs-to-teach/ The leading source of news covering social media and the blogosphere. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:30:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Coadunation » links for 2007-01-04 http://www.blogherald.com/2006/12/21/using-blogs-to-teach/comment-page-1/#comment-142593 Coadunation » links for 2007-01-04 Thu, 04 Jan 2007 22:22:18 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2006/12/21/using-blogs-to-teach/#comment-142593 [...] Using Blogs To Teach Essay discusses a method for using blogs to teach logic to college students. From The Blog Herald. (tags: blogging education) [...] [...] Using Blogs To Teach Essay discusses a method for using blogs to teach logic to college students. From The Blog Herald. (tags: blogging education) [...]

]]> By: Dan http://www.blogherald.com/2006/12/21/using-blogs-to-teach/comment-page-1/#comment-138982 Dan Fri, 22 Dec 2006 14:03:37 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2006/12/21/using-blogs-to-teach/#comment-138982 Micah & Abe, this is right on the money. One of the first blogs I created in an educational setting was as a graduate student. I used it as a way to develop a sustained conversation on a group project where several people were collaborating on a series of documents. I used a WordPress setup on a hosted site, just as you describe. It was a great way to get feedback and opinions on a series of document drafts - a simple workflow if you will. My fellow students took to it immediately and because of the blog the project was able to evolve rapidly and with input from everyone. It was particularly useful in that the group was spread across a wide geographic region and meeting in-person would have been challenging. Dan Micah & Abe, this is right on the money. One of the first blogs I created in an educational setting was as a graduate student. I used it as a way to develop a sustained conversation on a group project where several people were collaborating on a series of documents. I used a WordPress setup on a hosted site, just as you describe. It was a great way to get feedback and opinions on a series of document drafts – a simple workflow if you will. My fellow students took to it immediately and because of the blog the project was able to evolve rapidly and with input from everyone. It was particularly useful in that the group was spread across a wide geographic region and meeting in-person would have been challenging.
Dan

]]> By: Micah Sparacio http://www.blogherald.com/2006/12/21/using-blogs-to-teach/comment-page-1/#comment-138975 Micah Sparacio Fri, 22 Dec 2006 11:39:51 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2006/12/21/using-blogs-to-teach/#comment-138975 Thanks for all the feedback (and compliments). Delaney, great idea for using feeds to notify students of each other's posts. Thanks for the tip. Regarding identity, I think we'll recommend pseudonymity, but let the student ultimately decide. In the end, the idea of using blogs to teach boils down to coming up with better ways to enable to students to take ownership of their ideas and to actually write them down (thinking by writing, as they say). Thanks for all the feedback (and compliments). Delaney, great idea for using feeds to notify students of each other’s posts. Thanks for the tip.

Regarding identity, I think we’ll recommend pseudonymity, but let the student ultimately decide.

In the end, the idea of using blogs to teach boils down to coming up with better ways to enable to students to take ownership of their ideas and to actually write them down (thinking by writing, as they say).

]]> By: J. Angelo Racoma http://www.blogherald.com/2006/12/21/using-blogs-to-teach/comment-page-1/#comment-138964 J. Angelo Racoma Fri, 22 Dec 2006 08:00:05 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2006/12/21/using-blogs-to-teach/#comment-138964 @Mark - "Being flat broke and sleeping on the streets was definitely better." I can't imagine you being flat broke and sleeping on the streets. @Mark – “Being flat broke and sleeping on the streets was definitely better.”

I can’t imagine you being flat broke and sleeping on the streets.

]]> By: J. Angelo Racoma http://www.blogherald.com/2006/12/21/using-blogs-to-teach/comment-page-1/#comment-138963 J. Angelo Racoma Fri, 22 Dec 2006 07:59:26 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2006/12/21/using-blogs-to-teach/#comment-138963 It's great that blogs are now being used for learning. With higher education, I don't see any problems with students publishing blogs. However, there are security issues with younger people (such as grade schoolers and, yes, even high school-age students) going online, and it may be a worthwhile idea not to publish with the students' real identities. Of course, I may be paranoid, but it's a reality we have to face. Great article Micah and Abe! It’s great that blogs are now being used for learning. With higher education, I don’t see any problems with students publishing blogs. However, there are security issues with younger people (such as grade schoolers and, yes, even high school-age students) going online, and it may be a worthwhile idea not to publish with the students’ real identities. Of course, I may be paranoid, but it’s a reality we have to face.

Great article Micah and Abe!

]]> By: Delaney Kirk http://www.blogherald.com/2006/12/21/using-blogs-to-teach/comment-page-1/#comment-138942 Delaney Kirk Fri, 22 Dec 2006 06:04:05 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2006/12/21/using-blogs-to-teach/#comment-138942 I'm interested in following your experience with using class blogs. I used one for the first time last summer in a graduate class with wonderful results--we were able to extend the conversation outside the classroom for the 6 and 1/2 weeks that the course ran. Last semester I used a blog again but purely for posting links, assignments, and other info I wanted the students to have. This coming semester I have three different courses and want to use blogs again in differing ways. I applaud your use of individual student blogs and assume you will have the students use feeds to know when other students have posted? I’m interested in following your experience with using class blogs. I used one for the first time last summer in a graduate class with wonderful results–we were able to extend the conversation outside the classroom for the 6 and 1/2 weeks that the course ran. Last semester I used a blog again but purely for posting links, assignments, and other info I wanted the students to have. This coming semester I have three different courses and want to use blogs again in differing ways. I applaud your use of individual student blogs and assume you will have the students use feeds to know when other students have posted?

]]> By: Mark http://www.blogherald.com/2006/12/21/using-blogs-to-teach/comment-page-1/#comment-138892 Mark Fri, 22 Dec 2006 02:55:24 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2006/12/21/using-blogs-to-teach/#comment-138892 This is a fabulous idea for a blog- if it doesn't exist. Many have "snippets", but I can't find one where it is the central focus. Most seem to concentrate on how to make a "good" blog or how to "monetize". And for a thin-skinned type like myself- learning the hard way, in retrospect, spins me back to some nightmare reality- like I'm at a party I wasn't invited to. The period after I bought JOAB was one of the most unpleasant experiences I can ever remember. So alienating. Being flat broke and sleeping on the streets was definitely better. Really, I'd love to know how you respond to those who you know, for whatever reason, are just trying to sabotage any chance of success you might have. Or do you not engage? The latter has tended to be my own policy, right or wrong as it might be. This is a fabulous idea for a blog- if it doesn’t exist. Many have “snippets”, but I can’t find one where it is the central focus. Most seem to concentrate on how to make a “good” blog or how to “monetize”. And for a thin-skinned type like myself- learning the hard way, in retrospect, spins me back to some nightmare reality- like I’m at a party I wasn’t invited to. The period after I bought JOAB was one of the most unpleasant experiences I can ever remember. So alienating. Being flat broke and sleeping on the streets was definitely better. Really, I’d love to know how you respond to those who you know, for whatever reason, are just trying to sabotage any chance of success you might have. Or do you not engage? The latter has tended to be my own policy, right or wrong as it might be.

]]> By: Abe Witonsky http://www.blogherald.com/2006/12/21/using-blogs-to-teach/comment-page-1/#comment-138859 Abe Witonsky Thu, 21 Dec 2006 21:37:05 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2006/12/21/using-blogs-to-teach/#comment-138859 t, Thanks for the question. If flaming occurs, then it would be something good for the students to learn about, how to respond to it in as thoughtful and charitable way as possible (or just delete it). So, yes, I think that a lesson in "blogging etiquette" should be on the agenda. Do you know of any good website that talks about this, explaining how one should not respond to inflamatory commentary. I would love to be able to direct the students to such a site when I teach them how to submit posts. a t,

Thanks for the question.

If flaming occurs, then it would be something good for the students to learn about, how to respond to it in as thoughtful and charitable way as possible (or just delete it). So, yes, I think that a lesson in “blogging etiquette” should be on the agenda. Do you know of any good website that talks about this, explaining how one should not respond to inflamatory commentary. I would love to be able to direct the students to such a site when I teach them how to submit posts.

a

]]> By: Links Thursday at John M. Ryan http://www.blogherald.com/2006/12/21/using-blogs-to-teach/comment-page-1/#comment-138826 Links Thursday at John M. Ryan Thu, 21 Dec 2006 16:52:56 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2006/12/21/using-blogs-to-teach/#comment-138826 [...] Links Thursday Published December 21st, 2006 in Internet. Sponsorship for the 2007 Blog Awards is open Irish Blog Awards is now on Bebo Robots could demand legal rights Woman to appeal ruling on frozen embryos Title of Harry Potter 7 revealed Using Blogs to Teach [...] [...] Links Thursday Published December 21st, 2006 in Internet. Sponsorship for the 2007 Blog Awards is open Irish Blog Awards is now on Bebo Robots could demand legal rights Woman to appeal ruling on frozen embryos Title of Harry Potter 7 revealed Using Blogs to Teach [...]

]]> By: Tony Hung http://www.blogherald.com/2006/12/21/using-blogs-to-teach/comment-page-1/#comment-138812 Tony Hung Thu, 21 Dec 2006 15:22:12 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2006/12/21/using-blogs-to-teach/#comment-138812 Micah -- great article. Here's a question: if topics get particularly heated, what will you do to stave off flame wars? Would you suggest an explicit policy towards "blogging etiquette"? Cheers t Micah — great article.

Here’s a question: if topics get particularly heated, what will you do to stave off flame wars? Would you suggest an explicit policy towards “blogging etiquette”?

Cheers
t

]]> By: Introducing Micah Spacario (And Friends!) at The Blog Herald http://www.blogherald.com/2006/12/21/using-blogs-to-teach/comment-page-1/#comment-138808 Introducing Micah Spacario (And Friends!) at The Blog Herald Thu, 21 Dec 2006 15:05:27 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2006/12/21/using-blogs-to-teach/#comment-138808 [...] Today, for example, Micah looks at using Blogs to Teach, with help from his good friend Abe Witonsky. [...] [...] Today, for example, Micah looks at using Blogs to Teach, with help from his good friend Abe Witonsky. [...]

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