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A PORTFOLIO ACTIVITY
Blogging for Reflection
What is a blog?
a “personalized webpage, kept by the author in reverse chronological diary form” (Du & Wagner, 2005, p. 2) or “a personal diary, kept on the web” (Fun & Wagner, 2005, p. 221).
Permissions can be easily controlled
The author “owns” their blog and so has final control over the content
Paul’s History of Portfolio and Blogging
Project @ Dubai Women’s College in UAE
Studies lead to development of Portfolio Module
Thesis advisor picked blogging out of the portfolio
Eventually published: Post-Secondary Students’ Purposes for Blogging http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/560/1099
Why blog?
Social Presence – easier online?
Self-disclosure – sharing a journal
Emotional response and individual expression
Benchmarking – where do I stand?
Emotional Responses to Blogging
Please go to my ‘portfolio’ blog and leave a comment about today. You will find a question to answer.
http://blog.lesduke.com/index.php?blog=2 You have 5 minutes! Then come back here---------------------So, …?
Students … ?
How to blog?
Create a blog in SharePoint If you have a blog, skip this step! Or go to: http://edublogs.org/ https://www.blogger.com/start http://wordpress.com/
Make your first post by answering these questions:
What is your first thought when I say, “reflect on learning”? What advantages do you think blogging might offer you? What barriers are there to YOU keeping a blog? How do you think your students would react to blogging?
Post your blog address to the chat room Comment on others’ posts –
In SharePoint, click on the blog title – you will see a comments box.
References
Du, H. S., & Wagner, C. (2005). Learning with weblogs: An empirical investigation. Paper presented at the 2005 Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. http://csdl2.computer.org/comp/proceedings/hicss/2005/2268/01/22680007b.pdf
Fun, R. I. P. K., & Wagner, C. (2005). An exploratory study on the progress of social computing and its potential impact on organizational computing. Paper presented at the 2005 Proceedings of the Ninth Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems. http://www.pacis-net.org/file/2005/247.pdf
Leslie, P., & Murphy, E. 2008. Post-Secondary Students' Purposes For Blogging. The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning [Online] 9:3. Available: http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/560/1099