Chapter: 2 weblogs, Pedagogy and Practice

Chapter: 2 weblogs, Pedagogy and Practice

What is a weblog?

It is an easily created, easily up able web site that allows an authors to publish instantly to the internet from any internet connection.                                               

Two-thirds of all blogs go for made than two months without being updated.

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      Weblogs in schools 

There are four tools that teacher can use in the classroom:

Class portal

 *  To communicate information about the class.

*To achieve course materials.

* To publish the course curriculum, syllabus, class rules, homework, assignments, rubrics and handouts.    

                           E-portfolio  

*Students collect the work they might want to consider highlighting in

their portfolio.                        

                                                                              *Include links to videos podcasts, presentation and more.

                                                                                         

                 Collaborative space

-It is a space where students can collaborate with others online

                 School Web Site  

Weblogs can be used as a building block for a school web site.

* Clubs and activities.
*  All the sports teams.
* Teachers post weekly “classroom notes.

THE PEDAGOGY OF WEBLOGS

*Weblogs are truly a constructivist tool for learning because they allow students think and create text, write comments etc.

*Weblogs truly expand the walls of the classroom blogs archive the learning that teachers and students do because teachers and students can express their ideas and also they can comunicate their ideas. Teachers and students are not strange between them and there is a mutual and constant communication.

*The Weblog is a democratic tool that supports different learning styles because  all students could understand easily what they have to do. Students learn easily because they are more interested in how function the new technologies.


*The use of Weblogs can enhance the development of expertise in a
particular subject.

*Blogs can teach students the new literacies they will need to function
in an ever-expanding information society.

CLASSROOM USES OF WEBLOGS

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