You have just landed on one of the subject blogs. We will be using a number of blogs for the subject - including on that you will make your own. I will be setting up a blog for you but you might want to set up one of your own instead of the one I set up. The idea of setting up blogs for each member of the whole class is to see how that might work for a class, to see how a number of blogs might be managed and to see if it is all too hectic and causes problems in setting up and running and checking that number of blogs. It is a way of finding ways to find educational uses and value for blogs for learning in small or even for large classes.
in another blog of mine I have considered some of this issues and that might be a good place to see some links to other people discussing some of the issues on setting up blogs for classes My blog is called 2point0 but it has quotes from other blogs as you will see if you click here
This and 2point0 are Edublogs blogs - they are the type of blog I will be assigning a user name for you to sign you up for. You will I think get an email that tell you about this and it will look like it is coming from me or ictied at Edublogs.
You might already have your own blog or you may never have done this before - either way you are going to have to use both the blog I signed you you up for here at edublogs and this blog you are reading now.
One of the reasons for using edublogs is because it allows a user who had an account to set up a class blog like this one as well as enabling the teacher to set up and to some extent control a set of student blogs as part of a class where the students are going to be expected to blog.
Why a teacher might want either a class blog for all students and or a set of blogs one for each student can be commented on here at the bottom of this post.
So what are the pros and cons of group and individual blogs and why would you have either or both in certain teaching an learning contexts?
Posted by ictied on July 14, 2008
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