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e -portfolios. s tudent & professional. s o students can share. s o you can share. student blogs. A uthentic audience – no longer working for a teacher who checks and evaluates work but a potential global audience. Suits more learning styles - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
e-portfolios
student & professionalso students can share so you can share
student blogs• Authentic audience – no longer working for a teacher who
checks and evaluates work but a potential global audience.• Suits more learning styles • Increased motivation for writing – all students are happy to
write and complete aspects of the post topic. Many will add to it in their own time
Authentic audience
learning stylesmotivation for writing
• Increased motivation for reading – students will happily spend a lot of time browsing through fellow student posts
• Pride in their work – students want their blogs to look good in both terms of presentation and content.
• Blogs allow text, multimedia, widgets, audio and images – all items that digital natives want to use
Increased motivationPride in their workitems that digital natives want
• Increased proofreading and validation skills• Improved awareness of possible dangers that may confront
them in the real world• Ability to share – part of the conceptual revolution that we
are entering. They can share with each other, staff, their parents, the community, and the globe
Improved awareness
Ability to shareIncreased proofreading
• Mutual learning between students and staff and students• Parents with internet access can view their child’s work and
writings – an important element in the parent partnership with the classroom
Mutual learning
parent partnership with the classroom
• Blogs may be used for digital portfolios and all the benefits this entails
• Work is permanently stored, easily accessed and valuable comparisons can be made over time for assessment and evaluation purposes
• Students are digital natives - blogging is a natural element of this
digital portfolios
Work is
permanently storedAssessment & evaluation purposes
• Gives students a chance to show responsibility and trustworthiness, and engenders independence
• Prepares students for digital citizenship• Fosters peer to peer mentoring. Students are happy to share,
learn from and teach their peers
Copied from On an e-journey with generation Y
peer to peer mentoring
digital citizenshipengenders independence
drawbacks
the thinker
an example
larry frolich
what’s in it for teachers
grading papers
so now you have a blog
what goes inside?• biographical information (for students?)
• teaching philosophy• resume• courses and content• and, it is easily updated
examples• kinda tricky• free• free
time to make a blog