e-portfolios

student & professional

so students can share so you can share

student blogs

• Authentic audience – no longer working for a teacher who checks and evaluates work but  a potential global audience.

• Suits more learning styles • Increased motivation for writing – all students are happy to

write and complete aspects of the post topic. Many will add to it in their own time

Authentic audience

learning styles

motivation for writing

• Increased motivation for reading – students will happily spend a lot of time browsing through fellow student posts

• Pride in their work – students want their blogs to look good in both terms of presentation and content.

• Blogs allow text, multimedia, widgets, audio and images – all items that digital natives want to use

Increased motivation

Pride in their workitems that digital natives want

• Increased proofreading and validation skills• Improved awareness of possible dangers that may confront

them in the real world• Ability to share – part of the conceptual revolution that we

are entering. They can share with each other, staff, their parents, the community, and the globe

Improved awareness

Ability to share

Increased proofreading

• Mutual learning between students and staff and students• Parents with internet access can view their child’s work and

writings – an important element in the parent partnership with the classroom

Mutual learning

parent partnership with the classroom

• Blogs may be used for digital portfolios and all the benefits this entails

• Work is permanently stored, easily accessed and valuable comparisons can be made over time for assessment and evaluation purposes

• Students are digital natives - blogging is a natural element of this

digital portfolios

Work is

permanently storedAssessment & evaluation purposes

• Gives students a chance  to show responsibility and trustworthiness, and engenders independence

• Prepares students for digital citizenship• Fosters peer to peer mentoring. Students are happy to

share, learn from and teach their peers

Copied from On an e-journey with generation Y

peer to peer mentoring

digital citizenshipengenders

independence

drawbacks

the thinker

an example

larry frolich

what’s in it for teachers

grading papers

so now you have a blog

what goes inside?

• biographical information (for students?)

• teaching philosophy• resume• courses and content• and, it is easily updated

examples

• kinda tricky• free• free

time to make a blog