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e -portfolios. s tudent & professional. s o students can share. s o you can share. student blogs. A uthentic audience – no longer working for a teacher who checks and evaluates work but a potential global audience. Suits more learning styles
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student & professional so students can share so you can share
student blogs • Authentic audience – no longer working for a teacher who checks and evaluates work but a potential global audience. • Suits more learning styles • Increased motivation for writing – all students are happy to write and complete aspects of the post topic. Many will add to it in their own time Authentic audience motivation for writing learning styles
Increased motivation for reading – students will happily spend a lot of time browsing through fellow student posts • Pride in their work – students want their blogs to look good in both terms of presentation and content. • Blogs allow text, multimedia, widgets, audio and images – all items that digital natives want to use Pride in their work items that digital natives want Increased motivation
Increased proofreading and validation skills • Improved awareness of possible dangers that may confront them in the real world • Ability to share – part of the conceptual revolution that we are entering. They can share with each other, staff, their parents, the community, and the globe Ability to share Increased proofreading Improved awareness
Mutual learning between students and staff and students • Parents with internet access can view their child’s work and writings – an important element in the parent partnership with the classroom parent partnership with the classroom Mutual learning
Blogs may be used for digital portfolios and all the benefits this entails • Work is permanently stored, easily accessed and valuable comparisons can be made over time for assessment and evaluation purposes • Students are digital natives - blogging is a natural element of this Work is permanently stored Assessment & evaluation purposes digital portfolios
Gives students a chance to show responsibility and trustworthiness, and engenders independence • Prepares students for digital citizenship • Fosters peer to peer mentoring. Students are happy to share, learn from and teach their peers Copied from On an e-journey with generation Y digital citizenship engenders independence peer to peer mentoring
what goes inside? • biographical information (for students?) • teaching philosophy • resume • courses and content • and, it is easily updated
examples • kinda tricky • free • free