Assignment tracking December 9, 2007
Posted by Captain in blog features.Tags: lesson ideas, trackback
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Tracking students assignment could be nightmare. With trackback feature, a teacher will be notified when students’ work are posted on their own blogs. For example, A is reading B’s blog and and found it interesting. While A writes his blog, he refers to B’s Blog using trackback. He puts the trackback link in his post so B will be notified that his post is referred by someone else. It is a link between two blogs and also an acknowlegement to the original writer.
For example, a teacher can set a writing task on the teacher’s own blog and asks students to write their posts on their students’ own blogs as assignment and trackback to the teacher’s original post. The teacher can check his post to see if any students have done the work. It’s that easy.
Curriculum integration idea: Free writing December 9, 2007
Posted by Captain in Blog2teach ideas, Sample educational blogs, Teaching ideas, curriculum integration.Tags: curriculum integration, free writing, lesson ideas
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Creative writing / Free writing
A picture is more than a thousand words. The multimedia rich nature of blog is particular powerful when it comes to stimulate writing ideas and inspire students to write. Teachers can easily post a picture to stimulate the thought of students. In the following blog post, a picture is used to stimulate students and write. Writing tasks such as free writing and writing the ending of story can be easily integrated in a blog.
Free writing and listening activity December 9, 2007
Posted by Captain in Teaching ideas, curriculum integration.6 comments
This blog illustrates how multi-media can tie-in with blog easily and its impact for learning.
Curriculum integration: News Comment on a blog December 9, 2007
Posted by Captain in Sample educational blogs, Teaching ideas, curriculum integration.Tags: curriculum integration, lesson ideas, News
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Newspaper cutting
Traditionally, newspaper cutting requires students physically cut and paste the newspaper article on their assignment. If you ask students to write news comments using their blogs, they can write their feedback, comments in the blog. Here is an example. The link of the newspaper article is also shown in the same post. You can embed the news link and paste to your blog and start commenting on it. A lot of online newspaper (MingPao) and websites (Yahoo HK) offer instant news blogging function. You can click the blog button at the end of the news and blog right away.
Students can keep all their work in a blog nicely and tidily. They will not lose it again and it will become their learning portfolio.
Discussion
What are other advantages of doing news review using blogs?
