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  Eperiodical

• 11 Oct 07
  

  Christy Tucker

  Small study of reflective blogging to build a learning community with teachers. Overall, the results were positive and the teachers felt the experience was beneficial, but there were some technical and other difficulties.

  blog community education research plc

  • Anyone who can access the Internet can be part of the knowledge-access, knowledge-building,
    information-exchanging culture, regardless of location.
  • Learning communities do not have to be built through face-to-face interactions.
    They can be realized using nontraditional electronic communication.
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  • • Research suggests that in order for busy teachers to use an asynchronous learning
      environment they must feel part of a shared vision, have a sense of ownership
      of some part of the site, and benefit from the shared perspectives of others
      (Robertson, 2007).  Providing the kind of scaffolding that has these features
      is challenging.  Teachers are not typically given the time or the venue to
      share, discuss, or see examples of pedagogical alternatives for their classroom
      on any kind of regular basis (Darling-Hammond, 1997).

    • Although our sample size is rather small, the findings of this study suggest
      that most participants (community college faculty members, mentor, and intern
      teachers) recognized the value of blogging as a platform for sharing resources
      and ideas and reflecting on personal experiences. Several teachers were planning
      to use blogging with their own students.

      
      

      Blogging seemed to at least indirectly benefit most  PLC-MAP teachers in terms
      of integrating technology into their own teaching practices.

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  Christy Tucker on 2007-10-11
  Small study of reflective blogging to build a learning community with teachers. Overall, the results were positive and the teachers felt the experience was beneficial, but there were some technical and other difficulties.
  

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