Wednesday, 8 January 2014

Views about visited website

The first website is all about blogging accross the curriculum and the second one is that there are some very raw thoughts about the various types of Weblog posts for teachers and students and where they fit on my very indistinct blogging scalee.g.
  • Posting assignments
  • Journaling, i.e. “This is what I did today.” (Not blogging)
  • Posting links etc
  • reflection on the use of blog as a tool for learning and teaching

    Blogs usually contain diary style content, with updates
    posted on a regular basis and displayed in reverse chronological order.
    They often have a single author but group blogs are increasingly common
    for project or research groups. The content or use of a blog is the choice
    of the author and may include news, updates, articles, musings and
    reflections. Most blogging tools make it easy to include audio, images,
    video and links to other sites so you can easily annotate or recommend
    materials on the web.
    It is also possible to register your blog with newsfeed services to
    automatically alert interested parties to new content on the blog. http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/teachingwithtechnology/TG-blogs-2.pdf
    Students sometimes use blogs to record and reflect on their learning 
    experiences, whether in the classroom or tutorials. Its personal nature 
    facilitates the inclusion of aspects that may lie outside of the usual formal 
    learning and teaching spaces. You can opt to keep the entries private or 
    to allow others to comment on what you've written, thereby encouraging 
    critical reflection. 
    In project work, it can be used for you to keep track of thoughts and 
    ideas, create a written record of learning, jot notes following meetings,  
    and generally support the flow of information. If you are an academic you can set up a blog to act as a kind of electronic tutorial room into which you invite your students to read it and 
    contribute to it. This enables you to set up a tool to reflect progress and 
    development and a dialogue that fosters the exchange of ideas. It can be 
    a forum for discussing any topic and which permits contributions from 
    everyone involved.If you are an academic you can set up a blog to act as a kind of 
    electronic tutorial room into which you invite your students to read it and 
    contribute to it. This enables you to set up a tool to reflect progress and 
    development and a dialogue that fosters the exchange of ideas. It can be 
    a forum for discussing any topic and which permits contributions from 
    everyone involved.If you are an academic you can set up a blog to act as a kind of 
    electronic tutorial room into which you invite your students to read it and 
    contribute to it. This enables you to set up a tool to reflect progress and 
    development and a dialogue that fosters the exchange of ideas. It can be 
    a forum for discussing any topic and which permits contributions from 
    everyone involved.

    Thursday, 2 January 2014

    I want to know about focused resources used in the class during activities.