blogging for teaching and learning
virginia montecino and lesley smith
new century college

Why Blog?
Students

 
  • Students can readily share learning experiences on the Web without being familiar with Web publishing

  • Students live online
    • more receptive to communicating this way
    • more likely to fulfill assignments (journals, reflections, research logs...)

  • Student collaboration
    • read each others' work
    • link to each others' work
    • create group blogs to facilitate group work
    • see and learn from others' styles of writing, approaches to assignments
    • communities of practice (exchanging formal and informal knowledge)
 
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