September 11, 2004
Teaching tools
"New Tools for Back-to-School: Blogs, Swarms, Wikis, and Games" in the current issue of Educause Review (from mamamusings). Brian Lamb's piece on educational uses for wikis is particularly useful
Dennis Jerz on evaluating student blogging, via George at Palimpsest. I like the idea of a "blog portfolio" as it gives students some ability to shape their work retrospectively, and the categories look useful too.
Tips on getting everyone involved during groupwork — often an issue for me, too — also at Palimpsest.
Student Jeff Wei writes in the student paper about Chuck Tryon's use of blogging in class. A positive article, though you have to love the student who is quoted as saying that blogging is "horrible [and] annoying."
Scribbled at September 11, 2004 12:38 AM AST | Hmmm? (2) | TrackBack (0) | Link Cosmos | More? courses/teachingMan, talk about stirring up a hornets' nest (or, more specifically, a Yellow Jackets' nest). The student quotations in that story provoked some reactions that I never would have predicted.
I believe Jeff had the best intentions when writing the story, but his attempt at objectivity (quoting the "horrible" and "annoying" student) sure made my life compliated for a few days.
Scribbled by chuck at September 13, 2004 03:44 PM | PermalinkWell, but really, there will always be a disaffected student or two. It would be just the sort of thing that someone uncomfortable with new technology would latch on to, though; it sounds like that might have happened to you. We just need to be clear with the naysayers -- we were horrible and annoying when we did straight lectures and required five paragraph papers, too.
Scribbled by mj at September 13, 2004 03:55 PM | Permalinkhttp://webteam.unb.ca/cgi-bin/MT-2.21/mt-tb.cgi/939
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