Comments on: Web 2.0 tools in education http://www.gustavholmberg.com/magnitude/2006/11/30/web-20-tools-in-education/ Sun, 11 May 2008 23:52:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Gustav.Holmberg http://www.gustavholmberg.com/magnitude/2006/11/30/web-20-tools-in-education/#comment-3195 Gustav.Holmberg Tue, 05 Dec 2006 18:21:20 +0000 http://www.gustavholmberg.com/magnitude/2006/11/30/web-20-tools-in-education/#comment-3195 I run a blog on the introductory STS course and the second module is a paper writing module. The students blog the whole paper writing process, from the first week up until the finalized version. The weekly seminars then get going a bit more quickly, since the students (and I) know what the others are doing prior to the seminar. Also, regular blogging seems to take out a bit of the stress out of the writing process, at least I hope so. Prior to this, it seems the paper writing process more was something going on between teacher and student, now the whole group gets a bit more involved. Now, I should not overestimate this and some students respond with too little activity to the prompts from me. Still, when it works, it is a kind of improvement. I run a blog on the introductory STS course and the second module is a paper writing module. The students blog the whole paper writing process, from the first week up until the finalized version. The weekly seminars then get going a bit more quickly, since the students (and I) know what the others are doing prior to the seminar. Also, regular blogging seems to take out a bit of the stress out of the writing process, at least I hope so. Prior to this, it seems the paper writing process more was something going on between teacher and student, now the whole group gets a bit more involved.

Now, I should not overestimate this and some students respond with too little activity to the prompts from me. Still, when it works, it is a kind of improvement.

]]> By: Mills http://www.gustavholmberg.com/magnitude/2006/11/30/web-20-tools-in-education/#comment-3133 Mills Fri, 01 Dec 2006 14:49:47 +0000 http://www.gustavholmberg.com/magnitude/2006/11/30/web-20-tools-in-education/#comment-3133 Hi: I completely agree that it would be preferable to have something open source/open access to do the same sorts of things that Flickr and other commercial products provide. I think I'll try out this image analysis approach in my Western Civ course in the spring, but since I'll be requiring the students to purchase a Flickr account, I plan to drop a book from the set I'm asking them to purchase, so that the cost for the course remains the same. I'd be interested to hear from you what some of those "interesting things" were that started to happen once your students started blogging more. Also, I'm always interested in ways to get them to take more ownership of the blog, rather than just responding to prompts from me. What worked for you in getting them to blog on their own? Mills Hi:

I completely agree that it would be preferable to have something open source/open access to do the same sorts of things that Flickr and other commercial products provide. I think I’ll try out this image analysis approach in my Western Civ course in the spring, but since I’ll be requiring the students to purchase a Flickr account, I plan to drop a book from the set I’m asking them to purchase, so that the cost for the course remains the same.

I’d be interested to hear from you what some of those “interesting things” were that started to happen once your students started blogging more. Also, I’m always interested in ways to get them to take more ownership of the blog, rather than just responding to prompts from me. What worked for you in getting them to blog on their own?

Mills

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