educational blogging

Pedagogical Blogging for University Courses Chris Harwood (National University of Singapore) Ubiquitous Learning Conference UBC, Vancouver

December 2010

What blogging is

Write• Post

Get Feedback• Revise

Read• Comment

Internet Devices

Improve grammar

editing

Generating text using blog posts

Grammar awareness

Live blog editing

Managing the blogging process

• Each student sets up a blog site in the first week of class

• Blogging buddies and groups established

• Each writes a post of 60-100 words on a bi-weekly basis

• Each responds to at least 2 classmates’ posts in the week following each post

Week 3 How music makes you feel (Post #2)

Describe a piece of music or a CD from an artist you admire. Describe how it makes you feel and what happens musically or lyrically within the music to make you feel that way.

Upload a YouTube or an mp3 link to your blog to allow classmates to listen and comment on the piece of music/CD.

Wk Tutorial 1 Tutorial 2 Homework

3 26/1/2010Paragraph Writing 1Grammar:articles (1)

28/1/2010

Reading skills Grammar: articles (2)

Tut 1: 2nd blog postTut 2: Comment on blogging partners post and edit blogs for article errors.

Student comments

• I think you should change 'CHOSEN' to 'CHOOSE'

• I don't understand what you mean by extremely well. I know the meaning of it. But I feel this adverb is too affirmative. Conductors are learning pieces as well.

Editing Blog posts in class

Peer Learning• Maybe you can use

"concern" instead of "consider" it has lots = there are lots of difficulties informations = information

• I think you also need write something about how this piece make you feel, not only introduce a piece.

original post edited postI have been study playing violin for 19 years.

Every day I listened to them till fall asleep.

I have played piano before I learnt the contrabass.

I have been playing violin for 19 years.

Every day I listened to their music till fell asleep.

I had played piano before I learnt the contrabass.

agreement

• I like blogging as an activity (90%)

• I like making comments on my classmates writing (100%)

• I liked reading classmates written posts (100%)

• I believe blogging is a good way to learn from other students (100%)

agreement

• I learnt grammar from my classmates (80%)

• Blogging on EM1201 helped me to find grammar mistakes in my work (100%)

• Looking for grammar mistakes on my blog really made me think more about grammar (100%)

• 80% of students posted more than the required number of posts.

Questions please