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Using Reflective Dialogue Blogs to Encourage Interaction and Improve Learning

Using Reflective Dialogue Blogs to Encourage Interaction and Improve Learning. David E. Walker, Ed.D. Bloomsburg University of PA. Carpe Diem. A third grader’s response:. “Sees the day!”. Carousel Activity.

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Using Reflective Dialogue Blogs to Encourage Interaction and Improve Learning

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  1. Using Reflective Dialogue Blogs to Encourage Interaction and Improve Learning David E. Walker, Ed.D. Bloomsburg University of PA

  2. Carpe Diem • A third grader’s response:

  3. “Sees the day!”

  4. Carousel Activity • Let us “Seize the day” by working cooperatively in four groups to provide our answers to the following essential questions: • Why is reflective thinking significant to learning? • How does networking with others improve understanding? • Why should professors promote the use of technology tools like, Blogs, Wikis, Voice Thread, Podcasts, etc. ? • What methods do you employ within your lessons that promote the use of critical thinking skills?

  5. What is a Blog? Embrey (2002) defines a blog as “… a cross between a diary, a Web site, and an online community” (p. 7). Winer (2002) provides this definition: “A Weblog is a kind of continual tour, with a human guide whom you get to know.”

  6. Dave Winer – A brief biography Dave Winer, 51, pioneered the development of Weblogs, syndication (RSS), Podcasting, outlining, and Web content management software; he is a former contributing editor at Wired Magazine, a research fellow at Harvard Law School, an entrepreneur, and an investor in Web media companies.   A native New Yorker, he received a Master's in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin and a Bachelor's in Mathematics from Tulane University. He currently lives in Berkeley, California.  • "The protoblogger." - NY Times.  • "Helped popularize blogging, Podcasting and RSS." - Time.  Retrieved February 21, 2009 from http://www.scripting.com/stories/2007/ 02/21/daveWinerBio.html

  7. What is a Blog? According to Martindale & Wiley (2005), the blog framework generally includes: • Automatic formatting of content in the form of “headlines,” followed by “entries” or “stories”; • Time- and date-stamp of entries; • Archiving of past entries; • A function to search through all entries; • A section associated with each entry where readers can post comments on the entry (p. 55-56).

  8. Reasons for Blogging • Encourages the development of student- writing skills • Promotes the use of reflective analysis • Assures readings are completed and contemplated • Demonstrates the use of networking and collaborating with fellow learners • Develops intellectual interactions

  9. Reasons for Blogging • Assesses the depth of student learning • Instills the use of 21C technology • Facilitates communication among all participants • Develops a community of learners • Provides a forum for disseminating information

  10. Set Guidelines and Objectives • A clear mission encourages productive dialogue and transparent learning for all of the participants.

  11. Set Guidelines and Objectives Within their blogs, I have requested that students in three different courses create Reflective Dialogue Entries (RDEs) that contain: • A summary of the reading; • A selected quote, justification for the choice, and an analysis of the words; and • Three reflective statements related to their learning from the course, conversations pertaining to course content, and life experiences tied to class topics.

  12. Set Guidelines and Objectives • Student teachers are expected to select experiences, problems, solutions, insights, observations, projects, etc. and write journal-like entries.

  13. Set Guidelines and Objectives • All blog participants are required to read and respond to at least one other person for each entry. The RDEs are more complex, and I have found that numbering the various components assists students in organizing their thoughts. I encourage students to select different people to respond to as often as possible.

  14. Sample Blogs Post on September 3 2008.pdf (RDE #1 from Teaching of Language Arts) Post on October11, 2008.pdf (RDE #6 from Teaching of Language Arts) Post on October 20 2008(D&I).pdf (RDE #8 from Diagnostic and Inclusionary Practices for Literacy)

  15. Sample Blogs Post on February 13 2009 (Student Teachers).pdf (Blog #5 from a student teacher with two responses, one from a fellow student and one from me.)

  16. Questions and/or Comments

  17. References Blogging for Understanding References

  18. Conference Materials • Please feel free to visit my Faculty/Staff Web site and retrieve further information from this workshop at: http://facstaff.bloomu.edu/dwalker (All conference information is under the link of the same name.) • My contact information is: dwalker@bloomu.edu

  19. Please complete my assessment form for this workshop and leave it on the table beside the laptop. Thank you, David Walker

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