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    1. Using Blogs to Support Teaching and Learning
    2. About the Facilitators Dr. Daniel Churchill Room 116, Runme Shaw Building The University of Hong Kong Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong Email: [email_address] Web: http://www.learnactivity.com Tel: +852 28591141
    3. The University of Hong Kong In the top 30 Universities in the World (18 th for 2007)
    4. Photo from http://www.piskov.net/photos/california/page_01.htm
      • 20 Year Ego
      • No Internet
      • No Windows
      • No many computers around
      • No MP player
      • No Digital Cameras
      • No PNP, no Nintendo
      • No Blogs, Youtube, Facebook
      • No many other artifacts that are part students’ life today
    5.  
    6. Important transformations with ICT
      • Learning FROM to Learning WITH ICT
      • Student-centered learning
      • Students as technology users
      • Changes in curriculum and assessment
      • Teacher changes
      • New Literacies (e.g., Digital literacy, Social Networking, Information literacy, Visual literacy, Media literacy, Print literacy)
    7. What is new in Web2.0?
      • User control of information, subscribing and relationships, new forms of expression
      • Web as a point of presence, internet-mediated social environments, collective activities and community plumbing
      • Web as a platform (e.g., Microsoft and Google)
      • Science of user engagement and rich user experiences
      • Some speak of media revolution – “we the media” (Dan Gillmor), “voice of crowds”, increased democratization and new citizenship
    8. Collection of Web 2.0 sites
    9. Web 2.0
      • Blogs
      • Digital Storytelling
      • Sharing, Diggs, Recommendations, and Folksonomy
      • Wikis and Social Software
      • RSS Feeds
      • Podcasting
      • API for Mashups
      • Mobile Web 2.0
    10.  
    11. Blog, blogging, blogger, blogsphere
      • Blog is web-based publication
      • No technical skills to create your own blog
      • Blog can contain text, media, links
      • There are blogs, moblogs, vlogs, audilog
      • Blogsphere is a community of bloggers
      • "A blog is a personal diary. A daily pulpit. A collaborative space. A political soapbox. A breaking-news outlet. A collection of links. Your own private thoughts. Memos to the world.“
        • www.blogger.com
    12. Total Sites Across all Domains Source: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/web_server_survey.html
      • Bloggers: an army of irregulars (BBC) -- “The web has grown more in 2005 than it did at the height of the dotcom boom”
    13. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4123536.stm Digital Citizens - "the most informed and participatory citizens we ever had or are likely to have" - represent a critical emerging group for today and tomorrow. (Source: http://www.wired.com/wired/reprints/digicit.html )
    14. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4961768.stm
    15. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6164798.stm
    16. Blog Examples and Tools Teachers Teaching Teachers MITE6323 Blog by a Student
    17. Set Up Your Blog – Blogger.com
    18. We will try basic things first
      • Create new blog
      • Create new post
      • Post text, format text, create links
      • Insert images Watch this video if you need: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryb4VPSmKuo&feature=related
    19. New Forms of Expression
      • Blogging Should not be only about text an dimages
      • Digital Story Telling and other Multimedia Expressions
      • Digital Fluency
      • Interactive Visualization
    20. Publishing media in blogs
      • We will embed a video from a Youtube into your blog.
    21. Blogs in Education
      • Literature on blogs in education is emerging Some names to look for: Dyrud, Flatley, Johnson, Huffaker, Quible, Peschbach, Ramsay, Kinnie, Richardson, Selingo, Smith, and Worley.
      • In general, there lack of empirical evidences and formal studies investigating use of blogs in education.
      • Mostly of current literature is conceptual an published in non- SSCI ranked journals
    22. Recommendations from literature
      • Students and blog:
        • Publish own writings (e.g., reflections, journal, a story, comments)
        • Discuss group assignments, share work schedule and results of experiments
        • Peer review each others work
        • Collaborate on projects with each other, teachers, subject-specific experts in the field and pen-pals from distant places
        • Manage their digital portfolio or just use blog as digital filing cabinet
    23. Recommendations from literature
      • Teachers and blog:
        • Share resources with students (e.g., readings before class, handouts, and post homework and assignments)
        • Publish student work and otherwise archive learning
        • Communicate with students and parents
        • Monitor activates of individual students and groups
    24. Recommendations from literature
      • Schools and blog:
        • Communicate school news
        • Present success stories of its students and teachers
        • Various committees, school activity centers, clubs, sport teams and parent groups can post information
        • Achieve minutes of meetings and resources, and continue dialogues beyond the scheduled times
        • Use student blogs on schools home page to offer dynamic information about their campus life
        • Manage knowledge that members of school community creates
        • Education authorities can use blogs to share best practices, lesson plans and other resources
    25. Recommendations from literature
      • Benefits of Blog
        • Supports development of literacies for digital age
        • Leads to increase information management skills, and media, verbal and visual literacy
        • Encourages self–expression and creativity
        • Promotes increase students’ motivation, engagement and reflection in learning
        • Students who use blogs are more committed to their assignment and group work
        • Blog provides environment where every student gets and equal voice
        • Support different learning styles
        • Literature also suggests that blogs can be used as alternative to a learning management system
    26. Using Blogs
    27. How I Use Blog in my Teaching Facilitator and his blog
      • Provide course home page
      • Connect student blogs in the home page
      • Post ‘after class’ reflections
      • Post any announcement to the class
      • Address emerging issue, learning need
      • Invite students to provide comments
      • Monitor comments and respond
      • Distribute notes, slides and other material used in the class
      • Provide any additional resources
      • Negotiate issues, what students want to learn and assessment of their projects
      • Set the tasks for students
    28. How I Use Blog in my Teaching Facilitator and student blogs
      • Regularly check student blogs
      • Provide feedback to student work
      • Encourage students to provide feedback to others
      • Provide individual student with resources
    29. How I Use Blog in my Teaching Students and their blogs
      • Present their work
      • Share work
      • Reflect
      • Provide information and resources that they find interesting
      • Monitor comments and respond to them
      Students and blogs of other
      • Visit blogs of other
      • Provide comments recommend resources
      Students and blog of the facilitator
      • Read and reflect on posts provided by the facilitator
      • Access resources
      • Provide and monitor comments
    30. Embedding PowerPoint Slides in Blog
    31. Managing Blog interface
      • Using LinkRolls
      • Feeds in your Blog
      • Other plug-ins and extensions
    32. MS Office Documents in your Blog
    33. Using Bloglines, MyYahoo!, ect.
    34. Other Possibilities
      • It is worth exploring: Wikipedia, MindMeister, Podcasting, Use of Mobile Devices, and Social Bookmarks for Blogging.
      • Blogging system on your own server
    35. Some Resources and References
      • Read article about blogging in classroom from:
          • http://writer.zoho.com/public/zvezdan/Web2_Paper_2_v81
      • Read articles from:
          • http://connect.educause.edu/Library/EDUCAUSE+Review/Web20ANewWaveofInnovation/40615
          • http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue42/tonkin/
          • http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/apr03/mattison.shtml
          • http://www.scienceofspectroscopy.info/edit/index.php?title=Using_wiki_in_education
      • Check out these sites:
          • http://www.sldirectory.com/libsf/resf/web2.html
          • http://www.districtadministration.com/ViewArticle.aspx?articleid=1055
          • http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6438167.html
    36. Questions and Answers
      • Thank you for the attention

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