Students talk about their blogging experiences
Posted by onlineteachernetwork on June 28, 2007
…we hurriedly videotaped some students and teachers talking about blogging…
The Fischbowl: Blogging: In Their Own Words
Karl Fisch and Co have done a great job in capturing the thoughts of their students on blogging, as they’ve used it in their learning over the past year or so.
The Short Version says enough I think!
Here’s a quick list of points the students reflect on in the video…
- it’s like an extension of the physical classroom
- able to continue the discussion online
- see what other’s are thinking
- expand your ideas
- see and add to multiple (and mature) points of view
- use “scribe blogging” – like taking minutes of the session (good for those who are absent, or who need some review)
- “live/fishbowl” blogging together (in realtime)
- are accountable for own (public) comments and discussions
- allows quieter students to have a ‘voice’ beyond the classroom
- can make so many connections (between subjects studied)
- can look back on discussions later
- professional development blogging (for teachers) – clarify thinking/language, teacher as learner, diminish distance, extend professional network, maintain relationships (beyond getting a grade)
- feel more informed and connected
- changing the way we think, faster and more efficiently
- connecting us beyond our school – part of the worldwide “human network”
- there’s a community feeling (strange as it via a computer)
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