Sunday, January 09, 2005
Educational Blogging
EDUCAUSE REVIEW | September/October 2004, Volume 39, Number 5: "This last group of students, eight or so at a time, fire up their browsers and log into their cyberportfolios, a publication space that Principal Mario Asselin calls a “virtual extension of the classroom.”1 This virtual space is composed of three sets of weblogs, or blogs: a classroom Web space, where announcements are displayed and work of common interested is posted; a public, personal communication zone, where students post the results of their work or reflection; and a private personal space, reserved for students’ thoughts and teacher guidance.
Dominic Ouellet-Tremblay, a fifth-grade student at St-Joseph, writes: “The blogs give us a chance to communicate between us and motivate us to write more. When we publish on our blog, people from the entire world can respond by using the comments link. This way, they can ask questions or simply tell us what they like. We can then know if people like what we write and this indicate[s to] us what to do better. By reading these comments, we can know our weaknesses and our talents. Blogging is an opportunity to exchange our point of view with the rest of the world not just people in our immediate environment.”2"
The students at St-Joseph are reflective of a trend that is sweeping the world of online learning: the use of weblogs to support learning
Dominic Ouellet-Tremblay, a fifth-grade student at St-Joseph, writes: “The blogs give us a chance to communicate between us and motivate us to write more. When we publish on our blog, people from the entire world can respond by using the comments link. This way, they can ask questions or simply tell us what they like. We can then know if people like what we write and this indicate[s to] us what to do better. By reading these comments, we can know our weaknesses and our talents. Blogging is an opportunity to exchange our point of view with the rest of the world not just people in our immediate environment.”2"
The students at St-Joseph are reflective of a trend that is sweeping the world of online learning: the use of weblogs to support learning
