Bernie’s Bloggers
On Bernie Dodge’s One-Trick Cyber Pony he speaks of introducing blogging to his class of pre-service English and foreign language teachers. He has a page that links to the student weblogs. Last year he just set them up with blogs and didn’t push it much harder than that. This time he is including some specific directions about blogging. They’re using the Blogger service. He is letting them use the blog in whatever way they want and to think of it as something that they may use after the course is over. He is putting a grading component into it by having them blog about the themes of his course:
- teaching in general
- educational technology
- teaching in their content area
Then students will choose five postings that they think best reflect their best thoughtful reflections on these issues plus five postings where they have responded to other class members. This will count for 15% of their grade.
I like the way he has set this up. It allows the students a lot of latitude but will get them thinking and responding. This is another one I’ll be following.
January 21st, 2004 at 10:27 am
Thanks for this post. It was great to see new blogs by future teachers. I will be fun to follow along during their trials and tribulations!