CHNM Essays--Sending Your Courses into the Blogosphere: An Introduction for "O... - The Diigo Meta page

• 22 Jan 08
  

  Britt Watwood

  An Introduction for “Old People”

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• 21 Jan 08
  

  Julia Lesage

  on how a college teacher found that his students did not take email or a class discussion site seriously, but responded well to blogging

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• 17 Jan 08
  

  Christy Tucker

  An instructor explains how blogs improved the student ownership and depth of discussions over what they experienced with asynchronous discussion boards. Also includes how blog posts were managed and assessed for the course.

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  • How might faculty members use blogs to help their students reach particular learning goals? I use blogs to accomplish two goals in my courses: to facilitate serious communication and cooperation between students on course–related topics and tasks, and to generate efficient and meaningful class discussions.
  • The difference with blogs, and it is an important difference, is that students take possession of the class blog in ways they never did with these other products.

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