Blog is a Web site with reflections on a particular subject in the form of text, voice, sound, music, digital imagery, video or animation, posted by its audience. The posts are automatically archived, searchable and retrievable. “Blogs contain text, audio, and video files that are archived on a web page for easy students’ access”. (Michaela W. Colombo & Paul D. Colombo, 2007)
The use of blogs in education:
Teachers can use blogs to manage their classes by posting their instructions, handouts and homework for their students.
They can also use blogs as a means of communication between home and school to discuss students’ progress with parents.
Blogs can be used to maximize students’ participation and practice time. Blogging motivates and encourages shy students to participate actively in the learning process.
Text discussions enhance students’ reading and writing skills, as well as communication.
Revisiting and retrieving old reflections will reinforce and internalize knowledge.
Blogging improves the learners’ socialization skills. “Through social interactions mediated by language, edublogs offer students the opportunity to surface their ideas in a social plane.” (Fredig, 2004)
Blogging can also be used to obtain a degree through online education and online programs.
Friday, October 31, 2008
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Teachers Need to Share Their Ideas
Gardiner, S (2008).Teachers need to share their ideas. Phi Delta Kappan. 89, 760.
The author requests from teachers to share their stories and publish them instead of reading publication written by college professors, administrators, or representative of national committees. He thinks that when teachers fail to share their ideas, experiences, and to voice their opinions by writing articles for educational journals, they deny their colleagues access to reliable, valuable, and direct sources of information. He believes that, teachers are the ones who test, modify and clarify lessons everyday. They are inside the field of the game which is the classroom. He also encourages teachers to take control over their own profession by controlling the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, because they form the majority.
The author mentioned the advantages of sharing articles with colleagues and students by writing about his own experience when he used to teach in a graduate-level night class on how to write for educational journals. I think that, the writer was very successful in bringing this issue. He is clear in his message and objective and as a teacher I believe his suggestions and advice are valuable and persuasive.
About the Writer:
Steve Gardiner teaches English and journalism at Billings Senior High School in Billings, Mont. He is the author of Building Students Literacy through Sustained Silent Reading.
The author requests from teachers to share their stories and publish them instead of reading publication written by college professors, administrators, or representative of national committees. He thinks that when teachers fail to share their ideas, experiences, and to voice their opinions by writing articles for educational journals, they deny their colleagues access to reliable, valuable, and direct sources of information. He believes that, teachers are the ones who test, modify and clarify lessons everyday. They are inside the field of the game which is the classroom. He also encourages teachers to take control over their own profession by controlling the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, because they form the majority.
The author mentioned the advantages of sharing articles with colleagues and students by writing about his own experience when he used to teach in a graduate-level night class on how to write for educational journals. I think that, the writer was very successful in bringing this issue. He is clear in his message and objective and as a teacher I believe his suggestions and advice are valuable and persuasive.
About the Writer:
Steve Gardiner teaches English and journalism at Billings Senior High School in Billings, Mont. He is the author of Building Students Literacy through Sustained Silent Reading.
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