Educ1751 assignment 1 by Keffa Heaney and Sam Huggins

1. Using Blogs in the Classroom
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2. Blogs are easy to create!
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• www.blogger.com or enter blogger into a google/yahoo/bing
search engine and click through
• A Google account is required to use this web tool
• Ensure students alter preferences for the location and time
zone of their posts

3. How is Blogger Relevant???
• Blogger & Intellectual Quality Intellectual
Quality
– Engaging Students in creation: NSW Quality
• Bloom’s Taxonomy’s highest order learning Teaching
Model
– More emphasis placed on process of Learning
Environment
Significance
Learning:
• Shows students emphasis must be placed on
process for students to experience success
– Allowance for facilitated deep learning:
• Teacher reviewing progress can provide suggestions/inspirations
for continued discovery
• In the case of PD/H/PE stage six assignment teacher/student
contact can be maintained over the six week summer break, to
provide inspiration and encouragement

4. Blogger as a reflection tool Intellectual
Quality
• Can aid teacher’s encouragement of Learning
Environment
Significance
student metacognition
– At the end of lessons, students have five minutes
to respond questions set by the teacher that
require:
• reflection on the class,
• key points to remember from the lesson,
• Specifics that aided or hindered learning in the class
• Students engage in the creation of knowledge
and documents and begin to gain insight into
their own learning.

5. Blogs in Conjunction with Intellectual
Essays/Written Assignments Quality
• Provides students with the opportunity Learning
Significance
Environment
to learn the importance of time
management and process in the preparation
of an assignment of a high standard.
• A teacher has the ability to reward marks for
process and not just focus on product.
– Achieved by stipulating a percentage of the finial
marks based on a blogged journal to be maintained of
student progression throughout the assignment.
– Blogger will automatically log date and time, allowing
monitoring of time management.

6. How is Blogger Relevant???
Intellectual
Quality
• Blogger & Significance NSW Quality
Teaching
– Using contemporary technology skills to Model
Learning
Significance
engage student interest in the task Environment
– Learning internet and multimedia skills
that are relevant to the current globalization of communication
• Video diary= Skype job interviews, Uploading documents=
job applications/resume submissions/electronic submissions
of quotes or other employment data

7. Accessing Students on Intellectual
Quality
Their Level!
Learning
Environment
Significance
• Many students already maintain
their own blogs, such as facebook status
updates, so this is heavily related to current
social trends to document personal experience.
– For those who do not, they are expanding and
improving their ICT skills.

8. How is Blogger Relevant???
Intellectual
• Blogger & Learning Environment Quality
– Teacher’s ability to mark student NSW Quality
Teaching
work/progress remotely Model
Learning
Environment
Significance
– Student’s uninterrupted access to their diary
– Students have to ability to access their own diary to reiterate
what knowledge and content they have already accessed
– Prevents students from ‘lying’ and falsely filling in their diaries
with incorrect dates (e.g. Writing out the while diary a day before
its due) because it automatically provides the time and date
– A students’ lack of access to internet/computer outside of school
is a disadvantage

9. Easier for Teacher!! Intellectual
Quality
• The teacher can have online
Learning
Significance
immediate access to student blogs, Environment
allowing
– Continued monitoring,
– Progressive, more efficient and effective marking,
– Marking and observation without interrupting student
access
• Students can provide teacher/lesson feedback on
teaching strategies, to ensure content and
teaching methods are resulting in student learning

10. Without Student Blogs Intellectual
Quality
• Paper-based blogging allows Learning
Environment
Significance
students to falsely complete their
diary system, as students fill in their own
dates of entry. Meaning they are able to make a while
process diary the night before the assignment is due.
• As opposed to collecting work books periodically
– Lots of paperwork to transport
– Students unable to continue work without access to books.
– Less efficient and effective method of studying due to
large amounts of resources.

11. Blogger and the Visual Arts Syllabus
All Visual Arts students are required to maintain a diary NSW BoS Visual Arts 7-10 Syllabus
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(NSW BoS Visual Arts Syllabus pg.17-18)
Using Blogger to facilitate this satisfies the syllabus ICT & cross content curriculum by
(NSW BoS Visual Arts Syllabus pg.17-18) :
Learn and practise Allows students to learn to use a
digitally manipulating practise researching multimedia tool to
images, inserting into documents or electronically present information
uploading to their Blog
Digital record of Developing skills in
collation and selection contemporary
of research to inform technology skills;
creative decisions Blogging, uploading photographic/video of a
developing project, hyperlinking

12. Disadvantages.
• Limitations include:
– Disadvantage for students who may have limited
online access outside of the school environment.
– Students ability to place privacy on blogs. Ideally
only the teacher would have viewing access to the
students blogs, but this may be subject to student
hacking if they possess sufficient skills.