Saturday, September 14, 2013
Personally, I think a course can help get someone into blogging. Many courses could integrate it pretty easily. For example, a journalism class could use blogs to make classmates find out news about their local area and report on it within the blog. The teacher can then go in and make sure they are following all the aspects of effective journalism. Another example could be a public relations class. You could use a blog to create mock press releases, and teachers can go in to see if students are writing them correctly. For this class, they can be used to submit homework assignments as posts, and we can go to each blog and respond. This could be nice because each blog has kind of a personal spin of the user in it, so we could get to know something personal about that student that they might like to do, enjoy, etc. However, it may be a little difficult for the instructor to go to each blog and make sure that the students commented on at least two.
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One of the challenges I have with blogs is the comments. Desire2Learn/Blackboard provides a very easy way for me to view whether students commented on others' posts. Blogs are more difficult, since I have to go through all users blog comments and keep track of who commented. If you can think of an easier way, definitely let me know :)
ReplyDeleteI agree with your ideas of integration because then it's more of an informal way of having a group discussion outside of class plus it will prepare you for real world scenarios when dealing with people in different cities all over the country.
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