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Introduction
This blog is a collection of reflections and projects required by various instructors throughout my master's program in educational technology. A blog is a website that can be thought of as an interactive online journal. People make "posts" to their blog and then other people can comment on them. Click here to watch an informative video about blogs.
Context
I created this blog in my second technology certificate course, CEP 811; Adapting Innovative Technology to Education. In this course, I was introduced to what a blog is and I created my own to be used in that course, and beyond. In CEP 811, I primarily used this blog to post written assignments and my final reflection about the course. The next semester in CEP 812, Applying Educational Technology to Practice, I used this blog extensively to post drafts of my TechQuest project for those in my peer-reflection-group to review and give me feedback on. At the conclusion of the TechQuest project, it was easy to pull all the components together into one final paper by copying my drafts from various blog posts into Microsoft Word and then editing them according to the feedback I received. Using blogs as a reflection, and peer-review tool was an extremely engaging and beneficial way for me to learn collaboratively. This was an authentic experience of an educational use for blogs that can be applied to the K -12 classroom.
Educational Application
Blogs have many educational applications. Generally speaking, they are a good tool to promote collaboration and discussion among students. Blogging can promote asynchronous discussion which allows participants time to think about their response before they post. This is good for students who need more time to think in order to develop their ideas and for students who normally would not speak up in a whole-group, face-to-face discussion. Students with various processing disabilities can benefit from blog discussions as well.
Blogs are nice because you can control who is allowed to comment on them, and in some cases, view them. This is a nice security feature for having minors use them on the World Wide Web. Blogging can also promote collaboration and be used as a peer-feedback mechanism, such as how my instructors used them in some of my classes described above.
Another great feature about blogs is their ability to be fed into an RSS aggregator so a teacher can link all his or her student's blogs to their RSS reader and know when new blogs have been posted. This system also gives them quick access to all the blogs in one location. RSS readers are another technology that can be used for educational purposes, especially in the realm of the organization and management of information.
Technologies Used
* Blogger by Google
* Screencast
* Audacity
This blog is a collection of reflections and projects required by various instructors throughout my master's program in educational technology. A blog is a website that can be thought of as an interactive online journal. People make "posts" to their blog and then other people can comment on them. Click here to watch an informative video about blogs.
Context
I created this blog in my second technology certificate course, CEP 811; Adapting Innovative Technology to Education. In this course, I was introduced to what a blog is and I created my own to be used in that course, and beyond. In CEP 811, I primarily used this blog to post written assignments and my final reflection about the course. The next semester in CEP 812, Applying Educational Technology to Practice, I used this blog extensively to post drafts of my TechQuest project for those in my peer-reflection-group to review and give me feedback on. At the conclusion of the TechQuest project, it was easy to pull all the components together into one final paper by copying my drafts from various blog posts into Microsoft Word and then editing them according to the feedback I received. Using blogs as a reflection, and peer-review tool was an extremely engaging and beneficial way for me to learn collaboratively. This was an authentic experience of an educational use for blogs that can be applied to the K -12 classroom.
Educational Application
Blogs have many educational applications. Generally speaking, they are a good tool to promote collaboration and discussion among students. Blogging can promote asynchronous discussion which allows participants time to think about their response before they post. This is good for students who need more time to think in order to develop their ideas and for students who normally would not speak up in a whole-group, face-to-face discussion. Students with various processing disabilities can benefit from blog discussions as well.
Blogs are nice because you can control who is allowed to comment on them, and in some cases, view them. This is a nice security feature for having minors use them on the World Wide Web. Blogging can also promote collaboration and be used as a peer-feedback mechanism, such as how my instructors used them in some of my classes described above.
Another great feature about blogs is their ability to be fed into an RSS aggregator so a teacher can link all his or her student's blogs to their RSS reader and know when new blogs have been posted. This system also gives them quick access to all the blogs in one location. RSS readers are another technology that can be used for educational purposes, especially in the realm of the organization and management of information.
Technologies Used
* Blogger by Google
* Screencast
* Audacity