today, seng chee has once again kindly invited me to share on (edu)blogs, 17 excited HODs are with me today, and it is now the break time, aka action time for me 😛
will be going on to blogger.com account creation later, for the time being, just upload a few pictures to capture moments of the past 1 hour 🙂
Strategies for Educational Blogs
This is a paper presented by Dr Soo Wai Mun at the Educational Research Association of Singapore Conference 2004. The abstract:
Blogs are online journals that individuals publish on the Internet to reflect on mundane as well as serious issues of heart and mind. Like many email services, blogs are now freely available and form another communication channel for the Internet community. From outpours of individual tantrums to academic discourse of the Harvard Law School, blogs have proliferated far and wide. It is not surprising that blogging is becoming an instructional strategy for education.
This paper presents an overview of blogging, and relates it to practical educational applications. It highlights instructional strategies that enhance blogging as tool for teaching and learning. A case study where these strategies are applied is presented to
reflect on its strengths and weaknesses.
Teachers may find the sections on “Applying instructional strategies for blogging” and “Creating qualitative assessment rubrics for blogs” applicable to our teaching and learning tasks.
Dr Soo has kindly gave his consent to make available the paper for download. Download the paper here 🙂
On-the-fly CL-EL Translation
The NewsinChinese blog grabs Chinese Xinhua News Agency‘s RSS feeds, and employs an automated script to give on-the-fly “mouse over” translation. Cool! Check it out 😉
Documents for 10th Edublog Workshop
Thanks for all the feedback given, it’s a great learning experience for me to hear from all of you 🙂
Just to recap on the things that we have done:
Part 1: Overview and hands on blogger.com
This is the part we spent quite some time on and many of us were able to follow. Blogger.com is but one of the many freely available platform to create a blog.
Part 2: RSS and bloglines.com
Bloglines.com is an online RSS reader that can assist us in monitoring updates in blogs. (Note: this is not blog creation)
Due to time constraint and the design of the authentication process, a hands-on wasnt qutie possible. Do try to follow the user guide and you should be able to setup an account.
For a start, you can try to subscribe to the blog that you have created on Friday. Post something new, and see it being ‘highlighted’ in bloglines. That should give you a feel of how it works.
Last but not least, here’s the softcopies of the presentation and documentations:
1. Presentation slides
2. Blogger.com HOWTO
3. Bloglines.com HOWTO
Hope you’ll find blogging a useful tool, cheers 🙂
10th Edublog Workshop @Qifa Primary Sch
It’s break time now, we (abt 31 of us) are all blogging away (on blogger) for the past hour 🙂
After this break, we’ll be looking at Bloglines.com, an indispensible tool for teachers 😛
Time to go for my break too! *hmm* if only i have brought my sd reader …