As this is a co-enquiry, I am hoping tht there will be more issues raised on this blog. I will be keeping checks on it and if there are any further issues raised or questions I will give them a new section. Thanks!
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Many of the class have continued to blog enthusiastically. Sarah, for example, continues to keep a diary which is an interesting way of improving her English composition, grammar and spelling skills. She can download videos for her blog. William is posting Youtube videos and all his requests for games cheats. Instead of wasting paper printing them here, he can access blogger at home and do it there. Any lessons here in class can be posted with a picture so that mums and dads can see what their kids are up to. Stacey, for example does this every day. The more adventurous are also doing bebo now. The main problem is remembering username and password. Ways of helping students remember these are critical. Most have mobile camera phones but few can upload their pictures. It is a fairly complex procedure for them to follow. The fact that the students are enthusiastic and fearless about blogging opens up the potential for learning. They aren’t bored. The educator’s skill will be to devise learning programmes and material to be incorporated into their blogging so that they can learn while having fun. Maybe quizzes/assignments? In short, blogging does seem to improve the students’ self-confidence and it empowers them to do something that everyone else of their age throughout the world is doing.
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(Complete comment - some of this will appear in other parts of the questionnaire)
Many of the class have continued to blog enthusiastically. Sarah, for example, continues to keep a diary which is an interesting way of improving her English composition, grammar and spelling skills. She can download videos for her blog. William is posting Youtube videos and all his requests for games cheats. Instead of wasting paper printing them here, he can access blogger at home and do it there.
Any lessons here in class can be posted with a picture so that mums and dads can see what their kids are up to. Stacey, for example does this every day.
The more adventurous are also doing bebo now. The main problem is remembering username and password. Ways of helping students remember these are critical.
Most have mobile camera phones but few can upload their pictures. It is a fairly complex procedure for them to follow.
The fact that the students are enthusiastic and fearless about blogging opens up the potential for learning. They aren’t bored. The educator’s skill will be to devise learning programmes and material to be incorporated into their blogging so that they can learn while having fun. Maybe quizzes/assignments?
In short, blogging does seem to improve the students’ self-confidence and it empowers them to do something that everyone else of their age throughout the world is doing.
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