Blog Beginnings
Last week I asked my GSU students to post about what they were reading in one of the chapters of our textbook, Educational Technology in Action. My post, Responding to Professional Writing on the class weblog gave a brief description of blogging about what you are reading. Then I posted a sample post of my own, WebQuests Could Be Powerful, along with a sample comment
on that post. This seemed to help them and give them more
confidence. I’m finding that university students are a little more
hesitant to blog and seem to be looking more for what the “teacher”
wants than my elementary students. I’m working at getting them past
that. It should be a good learning experience.
After discussion, the GSU students posted on their blogs
and went to one of their classmates’ blogs to post a
comment on their response to the reading. I also encouraged them
to end up with a thought-provoking question that would invite
comment from others. Here’s a few samples:
Cara wondered about applying what she learned to other subjects……
While the students are searching and enjoying the sites off the
selected art museum websites , can you think of other subjects that
could be incorporated while learning how to become artistically
literate?
Christen puzzled over some possible problems………..
predict, however, is the copying of other people’s work and presenting
another’s work as one’s own, and also finding poor examples of peers’
work and using those poor examples as standards for correct work.
Sara inquires about other fieldtrips………..
I love
the idea of so much information being available at the students
fingertips. We live in a day and age where you can learn a wealth of
information about the world without even leaving your hometown! Today’s
youth are priveleged to have such a luxury, and these virtual field
trips are an excellent way to explore it. Can you discuss more field
trips (other than art museums) that would be possible to “virtually”
attend?
Check out these beginning bloggers and send some encouraging comments. Links to the student blogs are on the class blog.