Blogs in education 2
Mohamed Taher has assembled a nice page of links to blog articles about bogging in education. It will take me some time to work through the various viewpoints and frameworks here but having these all in one place is very useful!
Over at GCSE Maths Help, the story so far is that…
- The screencasts are getting 100 to 200 downloads each from YouTube but only about 6 of my students are using them
- None (not one) of the students have needed or wanted to leave a comment
- At least 4 of the students (from a class of 16) do use the site weekly
The moral of this might be that the most time-effective use of a class blog for evening class students is to provide links to existing resources and lesson summaries rather than authoring huge amounts of content yourself. Having said that, I shall continue to add YouTube based screencasts roughly each week so that I can hand next year’s students a CD-ROM and Web site with a truly interactive scheme of work.
Dr. Mohamed Taher said,
December 29, 2006 @ 29/12/06
Thanks for the comment about my blog.
I really appreciate your words you left at my blog.
And, I am already going the 2.0 path in my most recent blog, albeit on social and cultural vistas: see http://www.hyderabadiz.blogspot.com.
Wish you lots of luck.
Best, MT
Keith Burnett said,
December 29, 2006 @ 29/12/06
Hello Dr Taher
It will take me a week or so to fully digest the range of links you have provided in the page I link to in this post.
I tend to focus down onto one or two topics. I’m interested in blogging for teachers mainly as a ‘zero effort’ tool for them to provide information, links, activities to students between lessons. The dialog aspect is therefore less significant for me.
Dr. Mohamed Taher said,
December 31, 2006 @ 31/12/06
OK.
So, I think your search could be based on some of my links, but most on the type of educational bloogers, such as, the following results that I found when I searched within blogs for keywords, e.g., edu blogs teachers:
http://search.blogger.com/?q=edublog+teachers&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&x=52&y=4&ui=blg&spell=1
http://search.blogger.com/?q=edublog+teachers&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&x=52&y=4&spell=1&ui=blg&scoring=d
Keep me posted, I will then look at ERIC digest and similar sources for more content.
best, MT