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Blogging in Education: Engaging Learners, Practitioners, and Researchers

Explore how blogs support teaching and learning at all levels, fostering interaction and cooperation among learners. Discover successful examples like Musselburgh Grammar School and Geoblog Paris. Learn about key considerations such as community building, e-literacy, and online identity systems.

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Blogging in Education: Engaging Learners, Practitioners, and Researchers

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  1. mind the gap weblogs and web 2.0 in education Josie Fraser AoC NILTA

  2. edublogs: learners, practitioners, researchers, edtechs, academics, policy makers using blogs to support teaching and learning • At every level • Individual and group • Publicly and privately hosted • Multi-user and individual

  3. Musselburgh Grammar Musselburgh Grammar School was the first school in the UK to use blogs to get pupils talking to each other. They use traditional web pages to present 'read-only' information and subject help to pupils from teachers, and weblogs to create interactional, cooperative projects with the community and other schools abroad. Geoblog. Paris 2005Krakow 2004Paris 2004Musselburgh-USAPupil Council OnlineHead Teachers Letters

  4. Warwick University

  5. Walsall Schools

  6. edublog milestones • Barbra Ganley – 5 years blogging in the classroom • Gateshead Central Library weblog running since 2001 • James Farmer’s edublogs.org celebrated the services 1000th blog in just two months: Learnerblogs and Uniblogs established early 2006

  7. edublogger directory & awards:

  8. use of new & emerging technologies across the UK currently reflects the general use of information and learning technologies within institutions: there are excellent pockets of isolated practice. if there’s one thing that bloggers are good at however, it’s community building…. blogs.ac.uk 2nd June 2006

  9. meeting learner expectation, preference and need engagement, collaboration, citizenship and widening participation formative value: developmental & explorative e-literacy and voice negotiating distributed conversaions constructivist arguments…

  10. …& positivist concerns • retention, achievement, progression • evidence and supporting the curriculum - current debates around e-portfolio and personal learning environments

  11. practitioners: staff skills & current practice: • e-literacy & legitimacy • small pieces loosely joined vs. one size fits all • training & support

  12. duty of care: child protection: • literacy and resilience vs. moral panic • online identity

  13. systems: network management: • privacy, spam, filtering • hosting, ownership, data protection & portability

  14. thanks for listening! Josie Fraser e-Learning & ICT development officer AoC NILTA josephine_fraser@aoc.co.uk

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