It’s been a while before I managed to get this posted, here goes … This is an example of use of edublog in Chinese Language. In this blog, Ms Ho Su Siew of Victoria School engages her students in some active discussions on some of hot debated topics. Remember to check out the comments to observe the hot expression of views on-going, and take note of the length of the comments 😉
Oh btw, this is an example of the teacher-owned model of using blogs in classroom. In addition, you can find links to her students’ blogs in the page which captured some of their moments of life.
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Cyberportfolios in Institut StJoseph in Qu�bec
Cool! Thanks to Mary Nolan for sharing this example with us! This Canadian K-6 school has most of their 400 4 to 12 years old pupils and most of the teachers use blogs to capture everything and collaborate. These blogs are called cyberportfolios.
Though the blogs are in French, but taking a look at them still gives us some basic idea of the implementation. Truly, I am waiting for the day when we can see a similar attempt at school-wide adoption of edublogging in one of our schools.
[via: Loic Le Meur Blog]
Fun with English – Showcasing local stories
After 5-6 months of blogvangelism, not sure how many of our workshop participants has actually realised the use of edublogs in their teaching and learning. If you are one of them reading this post and you have been/started introducing blogs to your students, do let us know 😉
As I have shared with Jeanne the other day, (edu)blogs, unlike other edtech, can quite easily be integrated into existing classroom practices. So from now on, we are going to embark on another dimension of our sharing, to scout for local Singapore examples of teachers who too have experimented with edublogs.
So, to get our “Showcasing local stories” series going, the first one that I am going to share is the “Fun with English” blog, by Mrs Letitia Tan from Beatty Sec School.
Mrs L Tan is an EL teacher. Gathered from her blog, she would like to “interest students in the eng language” via “spontaneous writing in a more creative and casual way”. Great!
She has employed the students 1-to-1 approach of using blogs on Blogger.com, so in her blog, she has linked up to the blogs of classes 3E2 and 3E4 students.
To start everything going in the right perspective, she has set ground rules for the students to follow. Read on if you are interested to find out more!
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Some ways to use RSS for educators
Found this article entitled “RSS – The Next Killer Apps for Education” exploring the possible application of RSS in education. Going through the examples, these are the possiblities mentioned:
1. Creating/maintainng a blog for lesson resources, RSS used to notify fellow colleagues of updates
2. Self development, updating oneself of Science news through a RSS feed subscription
3. Monitoring updates of multiple sites at once, example of superintendent overseeing happenings in 49 schools through their updating of news in respective web sites
4. Networking with peers with the same interest, example of researcher ‘finding’ each other through one blogging and the other subscribing to the RSS feeds.
A teacher will be able to adapt these suggestions into use for our classroom setting. Idea 1 and 2 can be used stright away. Idea 3 can be adapted for use to monitor a class of 40 students instead. Idea 4 can be used to build Community of Practice among peers in same/different schools.
[source: Bee – coming a Webhead]
Blogs used in NUS tutorials
Some lecturers in NUS have used blogs for their courses, as well as to keep track of their research students.
Blogs are especially useful for popular courses taken up by a large number of undergraduates. Instead of setting up tutorials for all students, they conduct some of the tutorials online, by adding their comments to a discussion set out in a blog. Marks will be awarded based on their responses at the end of the courses.
Looks like the students are embracing blogs quite well, as seen from the responses. Read the article for the full report in STI.
And thanks Agnes for pointing me to the article 🙂