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Blogging for Educational Environments: Student Blogging Process Toolkit
FINDING THE APPROPRIATE BLOG FOR YOUR TEACHING PURPOSES IDENTIFY YOUR LEARNING AIMS AND OUTCOMES DETERMINE HOW YOU WANT STUDENTS TO USE BLOGS? SELECTING THE RIGHT TYPE OF BLOG COMMUNICATING AIMS AND OUTCOMES TO STUDENTS ASSESSMENT

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Identify reason(s) for student blogs How do student blogs match your teaching priorities? Are your teaching priorities for student blogs matched to learning aims & outcomes?
NO YES

Match student blogging activity to learning aims & outcomes

Identify assessment criteria

Re-validate and match to learning aims & outcomes OR investigate alternate online solutions (wikis, forums, etc).

YES

Would creating the new learning aims & outcomes require module / unit / course re-validation?

NO

Create new learning aims & outcomes for student blogging activity.

Determine assessment methodology Feedback (formative, summative, both?)

Determine what type of blog is best suited to your teaching purpose

SELECT BLOG TYPE

Do you want a course or subject specific blog? (an extension of subject concepts or an extension of a specific course / collaborative project)

OR

Is the blog to improve general writing skills?

OR

Do you want students to have an industryfocused, networking blog? Is the blog a subject or industry resource? Is the blog to represent professional practice or student portfolio? Is it a research or dissemination platform?

COURSE / PROJECT BLOG Main focus: - Constructing - Argument - Commentary - Chronology - Extension - Resources - Writing

REFLECTIVE LEARNING BLOG Main focus: - Perspective - Involvement - Insight - Process - Development - Self-actualization - Communication - Self-assessment

SOCIAL BLOG Main focus: - Writing - Composition - Grammar & syntax - Referencing - Topic research

PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE BLOG Main focus: - Scaffolding - Community - Peer to Peer - Voice to all - Research - Communication - Portfolio - Professional Practice

INTERNAL OR EXTERNAL ACCESS?

GROUP BLOG OR INDIVIDUAL BLOGS?

Internal access only

External & internal access

Contact your Learning Technology team to create internal blog(s).

YES

Will you use an institutional blogging resource (Moodle, Blackboard, etc)?


NO

Use external blogging resource: Wordpress, Blogger, Tumblr, Edublogs, etc.

Decide who will be the main author of the blog

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Decide who will moderate the blog

Internal creation process

Source external platform: Edublogs or restricted access Wordpress / Blogger / Tumblr / etc

Teacher

Student(s)

Consult your institutional guidelines (e.g. bringing the institution into disrepute, branding, etc)

Disseminate project brief, learning aims & outcomes, assessment criteria, and marking methodology to students

Teach students the basics of blogging

Teach students blogging etiquette, online etiquette (netiquette), online safety and online moderation.

Teach students about Intellectual Property Rights / Third Party Copyright + publishing legalities.

STUDENT BLOGS GO LIVE

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