Gurleen AhluwaliaLecturer in Communication Skills
BBSBEC, Fatehgarh SahibPunjab
Technology has the potential to address a variety of students’ learning styles and academic needs simultaneously and seamlessly .
•promotes integrative motivation•Increases involvement•own sense of ownership•reduces the boredom
•An online journal or diary.
•Simple web publishing
•Chronological presentation
•Shared or individual
•Support comments
Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com
Edublogshttp://www.edublogs.org
Live Journalhttp://www.livejournal.com
Instant publishing to the Net Empowering – gives students a voice Comment features allows interaction/peer review Promotes ownership of work Promotes reflection on teaching and learning Creating an e-portfolio of student’s work
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Advantages of BloggingAdvantages of Blogging
Used for brainstorming, storytelling and generating discussions
Promotes writing and reading habits
Builds community
Encourage shy students to participate
Developing critical skills
Offers worldwide readership.
Advantages of Blogging (….contd)Advantages of Blogging (….contd)
Popularity of Blogs
• Writing Video Reviews
• Digital Storytelling
• Discussion Forums
• My Personal Diary
Blogs in communication Skills class of Engineering Students
Teacher’s Role in a Classroom Blog
Wiki
•A website (non-linear, hyperlinked)
• Collaboration – collaborative public writing tool
• Community of users construct knowledge – Edit, delete or modify content – Ongoing collective work of many authors
• Students “own” their learning experience
Links to FREE WIKI Services
www.wikispaces.com
http://pbwiki.com
Example of WIKI Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Wikis in communication Skills class of Engineering Students.
•Modular Project Reports.
•Survey Reports
Wikis... •maximize interplay
•are democratic
•work in real time
•are text-based
•permit public document construction or
distributed authorship
•promote negotiation
•permit collaborative document editing
•work on volunteer collaboration
WIKIS CONVENTIONAL WEB PAGES
Open-editing Limited editing
Simple text formatting language
Conventional HTML
Earlier versions stored in online data-base
Earlier versions not automatically stored
Easy to create new pages
Harder to create new pages
Low security Higher security
Equal User Roles Hierarchical user Roles
Multiple Anonymous Authorship
Limited know Authorship
Communal, Collaborative
Individual
Pages considered always in process
Pages considered finished
Informal, human Voice Formal
• Help students to communicate & collaborate
• Motivate students to participate
• Provide opportunities to read & write
• Postings can be created by students any time, any place
•. Own sense of ownership
•Get experience with practical, legal and ethical issues of creating a hypertext document.
BLOGS WIKIS
Usually single author Usually many authors
Reverse Chronologically Structure determined by content and users
Usually Personal Usually Objective
External Links Internal and External links
Used in brainstorming or generating discussion
Used in group projects
Comments on the existing information
Easily modifiable
•Motivating teachers to use technology.
•Investments in teacher training.
•Faculty development Programs.
•Regular technology Conferences and Workshops.
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