The progression in the past decade of blogs from personal web journals to a platform for established professionals, corporations and writers has also created opportunities for education. This session looks at the use of blogs with graduate students at NJIT over the past two years as a method for regular student reflection on learning. Using either free services or commercial products, blogs offer the easiest method for students to publish online to a large audience without sophisticated web design skills. This allows them to focus on specific topics and on their knowledge construction. Built-in feedback tools allow teacher-to-student and peer-to-peer commentary. Though blogs can serve as e-portfolios, this project focused on writing concepts, publishing practices, intellectual property and digital design as a learning portfolio. This project will be incorporated into program competencies for students as reflective practitioners in addition to an established e-portfolio program.

2. This presentation is available online at: http://www.slideshare.net/ronko4 Additional information on reflective practices http:// dl.njit.edu /serendipity

10. Reflective Practice

17. A Quick Look: Sample ePortfolios

18. Program Core Competencies

19. Portfolio As Design Project

20. Portfolio To Demo Expertise

21. More traditional portfolio usage

22. Sample Student Blogs

23. Students are encouraged to post beyond the course requirements, but within their blog’s mission.

24. http://mt54.blogspot.com http://ccp4.blogspot.com The blogs should NOT reference the course itself or sound like “assignments.”

25. Students have had comments on their posts from the authors/companies/bloggers they have referenced.

27. https://blogs.njit.edu Does the blogging continue after the course ends?

33. Starting Out With Your Students

38. Ken Ronkowitz Director, Writing Initiative [email_address]