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Getting students to blog

@bertramrichter

Curriculum Leader – MFLTile Hill Wood School & Language CollegeCoventry

Tile Hill Wood School & Language College

Student blogging

Session outline:•Why?•How?•Examples (KS3-5)•Practical

1. Creates a learning community feel away from the traditional classroom

(also perfect revision resource for GCSE and A-level)

2. Provides an authentic audience for student writing (peers and ‘real’ world)

3. Supports differentiation - forum for less extrovert/confident students

4. Encourages reading & listening before being able to comment on anything

5. Develops reflection & debate – threaded comments simulate debate

6. Builds ICT skills

7. Outlet for creativity - a platform to showcase web 2.0 work

8. enriches the classroom through authentic and current material (videos)

9. Allows for multiple feedback loops / peer assessment

10. Brings in expertise from the outside

1. Creates a learning community feel away from the traditional classroom

(also perfect revision resource for GCSE and A-level)

2. Provides an authentic audience for student writing (peers and ‘real’ world)

3. Supports differentiation - forum for less extrovert/confident students

4. Encourages reading & listening before being able to comment on anything

5. Develops reflection & debate – threaded comments simulate debate

6. Builds ICT skills

7. Outlet for creativity - a platform to showcase web 2.0 work

8. enriches the classroom through authentic and current material (videos)

9. Allows for multiple feedback loops / peer assessment

10. Brings in expertise from the outside

High impact

Low effort

High impact

High effort

Low impact

Low effort

Low impact

High effort

Impact

Effort

How?

Which blogging platform?

Email posting and …

(threaded!) commenting:

Publish their work for them!

-“work” = anything embed-able (wordles/tagxedo/storybirds/vokis/tripline/ linoits…)

-get students to email you the link OR the embed code

-you post & they comment

1.Peer- and self-assessment

(KS3)

thwlanguages.wordpress.com/2011/06/13/carmen/#comments

2.Peer- and self-assessment

(KS4)

GCSE controlled assessment blog:

Using the sidebar as an AfL checklist:

3.Using (threaded) comments

(KS5)

4.Developing speaking

(KS5)

http://alevelgerman.posterous.com/

1. Creates a learning community feel away from the traditional classroom (also perfect revision resource for GCSE and A-level)

2. Supports differentiation - forum for less extrovert/confident students

3. Encourages reading & listening before being able to comment on anything

4. Develops reflection & debate – threaded comments simulate debate

5. Allows for multiple feedback loops / peer assessment

High impact

Low effort blog their work for

them – they do the

assessment

start SMALL & with your ‘best’ class

make the most of email

publishing & threaded

comments

Impact

Effort

ililc2@posterous.com

Getting students to blog

@bertramrichter

Curriculum Leader – MFLTile Hill Wood School & Language CollegeCoventry

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