A blog could be useful in a classroom setting as a way for students to journal what they are learning, share comments, and discuss issues that relate to them in a classroom or real life setting. Blogs can be used to communicate between students, parents and teachers.
The website: http://www.infinitethinkingmachine.org/stuff/Blogger.pdf (which is a resource from the CQUniversity Moodle site for Managing E-learning FAHE11001_2102)
explains very clearly how blogs can be useful in a teaching context. The below is a direct exerpt from the above website.
"Blogger® makes it easy for teachers to:
• Post resources, lessons, and homework.
• Keep parents up-to-date on class happenings.
• Reflect on their own teaching practices and share
their ideas with other educators.
Blogger® makes it easy for students to:
• Share schoolwork with their peers, parents, and others.
• Collaborate on projects and get feedback from others.
• Keep a reflective journal throughout the school year."
The advantage of using a blog is that a student can access the blog outside of the classroom, and it also informs families of their child's learning.
For Learning Managers (LM) who work with a Learning Management Plan (LMP), using a blog will provide the LM with checks for learning which relates to Learning Management Question (LMQ) seven, "How will I chech if my learner has achieved the learning outcomes?" and also answer LMQ eight, "How will I inform others about the learner's progress?" Students can see their own level of achievement and compare it to their peers work. Also, student's can comment on each others work to suggest ways to improve their performance.
A blog could be used in a teaching context to guage what students are interested in, how much they know about a topic and what they are yet to learn. A blog could be used to inform the LM about LMQ's one and two. "What does my learner already know?" and "Where does my learner need/want to be?" These questions are vital, as they direct the entire course of the unit planned for.
A blog could be used to inform LMQ five, "What will constitute the learning journey?" In this area the Learning Manager will create a unit of work which will achieve the outcomes identified in LMQ two.
A blog can also have resources and homework posted on there for the students. This directly relates to LMQ four, "What resources do I have at my disposal?" Therefore, six out of the eight LMQ's can be answered using a blog.
A blog has great potential in a teaching context both for planning and guaging student learning, informing students and parents/families of their child's learning and also sharing comments, thoughts, journalling, group collaborations, posting resources and homework and many other applications.
The LMP eight LMQ's can be found on the CQUniversity Moodle sight for EDED11353 - Learning Management 1 under resources.
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