Blogging and Social Bookmarking for Teaching and Learning Clancy Ratliff Department of Rhetoric [email_address]

How to Create a Learning Community With Weblogs and Avoid Forced Blogging If the class is small enough, use one group weblog Suggest topics, but leave it open Riff off the students Invite (or require) students to submit prompts for posts

If the class is small enough, use one group weblog

Suggest topics, but leave it open

Riff off the students

Invite (or require) students to submit prompts for posts

How to Create a Learning Community With Weblogs and Avoid Forced Blogging Fewer posts, more comments Occasional fun topics Encourage creativity, experimentation, and innovation Grade on participation only

Fewer posts, more comments

Occasional fun topics

Encourage creativity, experimentation, and innovation

Grade on participation only

Social Bookmarking in Teaching and Learning Show students your bookmarks for the class; this way they get a feel for what you think is relevant to the course (Dilger) Create one class account, give everyone the username and password Build a resource of online sources collaboratively Or, require each student to create an account and gather sources and materials

Show students your bookmarks for the class; this way they get a feel for what you think is relevant to the course (Dilger)

Create one class account, give everyone the username and password

Build a resource of online sources collaboratively

Or, require each student to create an account and gather sources and materials

From Bradley Dilger’s del.icio.us Site

Learning Outcomes Forces students to think about course topics and recognize them in everyday web reading Challenges students to recognize the ways course topics overlap Lets the students benefit from the participatory design of social software -- seeing what other users tagged under category X (Dilger) Recommended: Bradley Dilger, http://wrecking.org/cbd/2006/02/05/delicious-and-teaching/

Forces students to think about course topics and recognize them in everyday web reading

Challenges students to recognize the ways course topics overlap

Lets the students benefit from the participatory design of social software -- seeing what other users tagged under category X (Dilger)