Ron,
That is a great idea. You could give participation points to those students who engage in the Blog. Many students have the same questions.
Dr. Kelly Wilkinson
I have considered setting up a blog to provide more detailed instruction on topics that I only touch on in class. I teach programming and simply don't have time to spend in class going over how to setup and install many of the software tools required. I often find myself working one on one with students outside of class if they have problems. A blog might cut that down.
Ron
Mark,
Kudos to you for seeing the discussion board as the "classroom". You capture what many of us want in an online course, the feeling of togetherness of the class.
Dr. Kelly Wilkinson
Mark,
Kudos to you for seeing the discussion board as the "classroom". You capture what many of us want in an online course, the feeling of togetherness of the class.
Dr. Kelly Wilkinson
Actually, in my on-line English classes, roughly half of the students' input and my responses are accomplished with what we call a *Discussion Board*. It is nothing more than an in-class blog but I love the fact that students geographically separated can feel a virtual sense of a physical classroom.
jacob ,
That would be a great way to encourage discourse. They would have to be responsible for supporting their "claims".
Dr. Kelly Wilkinson
With literature and humanities courses, students could be assigned specific readings and then blog their personal interpretations and analysis of the assigned piece.
Eileen,
That is true, that should drive the decision on assessment.
Dr. Kelly Wilkinson
I think it would depend on the objective of the unit and which assessments would be available for choice.
- Dr. Wibbeke
Morissa,
You have to think about that. You don't want to overwhelm students by the work. I think at times we overcompensate and require our online students to do such much work to make sure the course is rigorous. (just my opinion)
Dr. Kelly Wilkinson
Sodang,
That is a great way to use the tool. It is a great way to address current events and require(?) students to comment on them.
Dr. Kelly Wilkinson
Eileen,
Would you have your students pick the assessment? I guess I don't know how you could have students opt out of an assessment unless you had an alternative assignment.
Dr. Kelly Wilkinson
Claire,
This is GREAT!!!! What a great idea. This makes so much sense. Your students will benefit from your creativity.
Dr. Kelly Wilkinson
David,
Math, that is a tough subject. The discipline does determine usage of certain tool. You might be able to use it to show difficult areas that can be addressed outside the content. Just a thought. . .
Dr. Kelly Wilkinson
I have had a business blog of my own for years so as a business instructor it could be a good tool to use to allow students to discuss ideas. Having said that, there is already so much for them to do within the LMS that they most likely would never participate.
I would use blogs to further elaborate on classroom lectures, homework assignments, or post critical thinking exercises. I would use the real time access to blog about current events and give my students feedback of how it pertain to the class subject.
Kelly,
For myself, I would see implementing blogs for each student in the course. I would initially give them the option of having a blog of not for my first class. I would provide them rubrics and guidelines for posting. At the end of the class, I would then choose the best blog and use it as an example for a future class of how a blog can be properly utilized in the classroom.
- Dr. Eileen Wibbeke
I’m actually building a blog that will provide video tutorials for the students and allow them to ask questions via comments. Video will be hosted by Vimeo and the blog built in Wordpress.
Hello,
I may be able to use a blog in an effort to share information that is outside of the text. An example may be assigning current event articles that are central to the course. This would permit students to not only see the significance of the subject matter but also to provide their opinions. The difficulty would be in grading the contribution of students since it would be subjective which is outside the scope of most math based courses.
George,
I agree with you. I think it is a great way to measure a variety of knwoledge and skills at a high level based on bloom's technology.
Dr. Kelly Wilkinson
