Engagement Activity 1: Creating a Blog - Reflection
Blog to me is very flexible; we can make it
very personal like a personal online dairy or make it online learning space.
For my subjects, I would make it more personal for Math subject, because this
might help students find Math a bit more interesting and related to their life
outside of school, and I would make it more academic for my business classes,
it can be a great place holder for all kind of information about the world of
business, and students share their findings and comment on each topic.
Blog
Plus
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Flexible
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24/7
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Socially Interactive
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Visual
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Auditory
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Connect people outside of class
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Easy to organize
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Easy to use
Blog can be managed to cover variance types
of leaners, the visual or auditory there will be pictures and videos; for sequential
and global the posts can be well organized they will be able to follow step by
step or see the big picture by looking at the post history on the side; for
active or reflective learners they can choose to comment on the post, or just
read and take the key points they think is helpful from a blog.
Minus
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Time consuming
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not accessible if no computer
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No real time feedback
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No protection on the blog
content
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cyber bullying
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not face to face
To be blog is focusing on the declarative
knowledge, and not able to demonstrate that users have learned procedural knowledge.
There will be no way to show students have understand how to carry out a
chemistry lab tasks unless it is performed in real life. So I guess blog can be
quite limited, I will need to be very careful when to use it, and what to use
it for. The purpose of using blog in my class needs to be carefully thought
through first.
Interesting
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can show personality
I struggled with the difference between “plus”
and “interesting” so did not come up with enough ideas here.
After looking at a lot of blogs online, I realsie
people can make their blog extremely “boring” but really academic or just focusing
on the topics, as it will be useful for people just seeking for information or
knowledge instead of entertainment. Most of blogs are showing some level of
personality of the owner, through the colour or template they choose or the
layout may have been changed. How much pictures they used, and I even come across
someone used the same youtube clip as me, so that was exciting. I find it was
helpful using blog to host all my engagement activities, and named they week by
week, it made it easy for me to look back and search for information. The whole experience was pleasant enough, and
not a waste of time. Blog is limited online sharing tool compare to some of
other online interactive sharing website, such as facebook or my space, but it
is good in some level so the purpose of using blog can be managed well because of
its limit. I would definitely give it a go once start teaching.
Wow Tina. Nice use of mind map to show a PMI.
ReplyDeleteI suggest the interesting part of a PMI comes with more experience applying it in a classroom.
The most important thing for a teacher to do is pick the right ICT to do the job. For example a carpenter uses a saw to cut timber. They can also use a shovel to cut timber but it doesn't do the job well. The same applies to ICT.
Great work.
Hi Gary
DeleteExperience, that's so true and that is the part I look forward but scared at the same time. It would be the time I will know if I am really up for this job.
Been a teacher to me is really challenging, so hopefully picking up the right ICT will make it more interesting.
Thanks
Tina