Chapter 8 :Communicating and Network with Websites, Blogs, Wikis, and More
Photo Credits: Richard Cawood on Flickr
Focus Question: How can teachers use wikis to promote collaborative learning?
Teachers can use wikis in many ways. They help the students to learn together and share information. Also, a wikitext can be created together as part of a class study topic. Our class currently uses the wiki to view assignment due dates and rubrics at any time without having to ask/email our teacher.Tech Tool: Blogger
Blogger is new to me; I just started using it in this class. I enjoy it and think that for being a free blogging website, it has a lot of good features. We use it - like I am right now- to do our weekly journal post assignment. It is very user friendly has nice free backgrounds to choose from. Another feature I like is that it is public so anyone can view your blog. All in all, blogger is a great tool.Summary& Connection
This chapter is mainly about how teachers and students can share ideas together online. There are various methods such as blog websites, discussion boards, and email. Before I began this EME2040 class I was not aware of all of the blogging websites out on the internet. I think that as our culture is evolving quickly to more technology based learning that classes will be using these kind of technologies for most assignments instead of the typical paper turning in methods.Resources:
Maloy, Robert W. Transforming Learning with New Technologies. Boston: Pearson/Allyn and Bacon, 2011. Web
Blogging has some incredible opportunities as a tool for teaching/learning - from writing reflective journals (as you mention), to using as a class 'scribe' (a summary of what was covered in class). Having experience in using as a student in this class will hopefully provide confidence and a 'spark' for using when you have your own class! :)
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