Q:How might a blog support the work you do?
A: It might be used to share latest news, technical tricks, and bargains. A good, interesting blog might help to organize interest groups to make trips, purchases, training sessions and other Professional Development possible and cost effective.
Q: How might you use a blog with students?
A: As a tutor or mentor source immediately springs to mind. There is never enough time to get all of the questions answered in class. A blog might be just the ticket for covering more bases.
Q: How might they respond to a blog assignment?
A: They might take advantage of the tools and do an excellent and in-depth job of research and post an engaging response that included text, images and charts.
More likely, they will cut and paste huge chunks from barely related sites, run spellcheck and call it a day.
Q: What concerns do you have about educational blogging?
A: The same concerns I have about educators and teaching in general. Some practitioners are simply incapable of imagination, creativity, or exploration of new ideas, materials and techniques. A blog is a tool of unknown value at this point. Interested and creative educators may make a huge 'bang' with a blog. Others will make something boring and useless that they and their users will come to despise.
To use a blog because it is 'hip' is to miss the entire point. Not everyone can tap dance. Not everyone can make effective use of a blog.
(This concludes the obligatory '23 Things' curriculum for today).
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Steven Covey (7 Habits of Highly Successful People guy) says in his book, The 8th Habit, that people crave having a voice. He posits that the internet is meeting that need for many people -- an opportunity to have a voice and be heard. Blogging is a obvious tool for that --- anyone can blog about, well, anything. What a powerful and important shift in our cultural -- giving everyone the ability to be heard. Pretty cool, huh?
ReplyDeleteBlogging can be a great way for explaining complex tasks in, say, a receipe, or deconstruct an episode from the Food Channel. Do they have clips you can post on your blog? I get ahead of myself.
ReplyDeleteBlogging is means of puting your voice out there. It helps students and teachers to find their voice. A fine balance is struck as we communicate and the kind of audience that responds. I noticed that your voice is different in later postings about cooking than in the early postings.
Bon Appetite!