Blogging in the Classroom
May 13, 2008The main advantage of blogging is the ability to archive and share opinions/comments – many students dislike having to provide evidence and record all activities for the sake of documentation. As it tracks and archives posts, it provides a great solution to chasing up students for documentation and rushing around the school looking for a working printer. I can see students eventually having an e-portfolio – this is something I have been experimenting with – here is an example of a student with a Flickr portfolio.
A major disadvantage is that it becomes so accessible that the amount of coursework and expectation of students’ outcomes increases, then we are left with another system where students feel stressed by learning. I think it works well as a system as long as it doesn’t duplicate tasks.
May 15th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
The portfolio idea is a good one – a media studies colleague of mine uses blogs as online portfolios for his students’ work. They can then put up different design ideas and get other students to comment on which they like best – so you’re getting some good peer assessment in there too.