Today a group of students ran a great workshop on edublogs. They created a page about blogging with educblogs on the CEGSA website http://cegsa.editme.com/blogs
Part of the practical part of thworkshop was to respond to the following questions on our own blog:
- Do you think Edublogs is a tool that you would use as an educator? If not, why?
- How would you use Edublogs within your classroom with your students?
I think thatEdublogs is an excellent tool that I would definitely use with my students. 21st Century learning is all about getting students to be more aware of their thinking and abilities and needs as a learner. Blogging to reflect on learning is a perfect strategy for developing students’ metacognitive skills. It is also a wonderful way for students to write for a purpose to an authentic audience.
When using Edublogs in my class of I would create a class home page and link to students’ individual blogs. I would ensure that students are not identified in any way but use avatars and pseudonyms. When setting up of a class page, I would ensure that I had administration rights over students individual blogs.
A great workshop!
2 responses so far ↓
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elizabeth
// Oct 29, 2009 at 7:30 am
hey trudy,
did you realise that you can paste the embed code of a video directly into the post window and it’ll embed it?
i did that for the glogster and the youtube video on my page, the third video entry was done using vodpod, i actually prefer the youtube in-text embedding…
cheers,
elizabeth
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tsweeney
// Oct 29, 2009 at 1:29 pm
Hi Elizabeth,
Thanks for the comment. Did you have to paste the code in the HTML tab or just the visual editor? Today I pasted code into the HTML editor which was so much easier than the previous vodpod method but that was the only way to do video previously. Having set up vodpod I do like how I can go to my vod pod account as see all of the videos I have book marked there.
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