reducing aggravation of student blogging: the story of bim

Reducing aggravation of student blogging: the story of BIM

David Jones

http://davidtjones.wordpress.com

http://bit.ly/bimstory

Overview

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sookie/100608625/

How?

What?

Why?

Does it work? Yes,

but!

Overview

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sookie/100608625/

How?

What?

Why?

Does it work? Yes,

but!

BAMIntoMoodle Activity module for

Moodle

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nolifebeforecoffee/124659356/

BAMIntoMoodle

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Duplicates and expands Webfuse tool

(Jones and Luck, 2009)

BlogAggregationManagement

- 26 offerings, 7 courses- 2790+ students- 20,000+ blog postshttp://bit.ly/

d1w5nv

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nolifebeforecoffee/124659356/

Students create and register blogs/feeds

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They answer questions (or not)

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BIM aggregates/mirrors the student posts

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BIM “allocates” posts to questions

Unallocated

Submitted

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BIM shows students what it knows about their posts

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BIM provides teaching staff with management interface

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BIM integrates with Moodle gradebook

Overview

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sookie/100608625/

How?

What?

Why?

Does it work? Yes,

but!

Reflection/meta-cognition

(Social)Constructionism

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wwworks/3196112134/

Connectivism

Escapingclosed gardens(Kim,

2010)

“building literacies”

(Moyle, 2010)

(Siemens, 2005)

(Papert & Harel, 1991) Bette

r

http://www.flickr.com/photos/quinnanya/3588989219/

Who has posted what?

Who has marked what?

How to mark? On the blog?

Integrating with results processing?

200+ students

10 staff

http://www.flickr.com/photos/daquellamanera/267095174/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/daquellamanera/267095174/

Open

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Open

More workUnfamiliarit

y

More “marking”

Overview

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sookie/100608625/

How?

What?

Why?

Does it work? Yes,

but!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tamaiyuya/74134502/

Create blog

Students

Register blogUse blogCheck progress

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Add a BIM activity

Coordinator

Add questionsAllocate student groups

Track posts

Mark postsRelease

posts

Configure

Coordinator & Marker

Allocate postsTrack

marking

Feed forward

http://www.flickr.com/photos/aussiegall/759309122/

OPML feed for teaching staff

Class/group OPML feed for students

Custom feeds

Post content

Which posts

Overview

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sookie/100608625/

How?

What?

Why?

Does it work? Yes,

but!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/design-dog/1322023178/

- 26 offerings, 7 courses- 2790+ students- 20,000+ blog posts

Since 2006

http://www.flickr.com/photos/neeta_lind/1465408016/

Blog as predictor

High performing

Low performing

6 students did not register blog

(Jones and Luck, 2009)

4 failed every course

2 failed 2 of 3 courses

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93 students scored less than 28% on blog

11% did not sit exam

57% failed the exam

31% scored less than 74%

Blog as predictor

High performing

Low performing

(Jones and Luck, 2009)

Best of breed

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lyon_photography/3886352249/

One of the most compelling aspects of the project was the simple way it

married Web 2.0 applications with institutional systems.

This approach has the potential to give institutional teaching and

learning systems greater efficacy and agility

(Coghlan et al, 2007)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/daquellamanera/267095174/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mager/2776666394/

Net gen, not!

Students

Staff

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mager/2776666394/

Net gen, not!

Students

Staff Reflection

?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mager/2776666394/

Net gen, not!

Students

Staff Reflection

?

Open

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Net gen, not!

Students

Staff Reflection

?

The “grammar of school” (Papert,

1995)

Open

http://www.flickr.com/photos/80417459@N00/2471314610/

http://bit.ly/bimstory

http://bit.ly/bambim Presentatio

nBAM

http://www.flickr.com/photos/annarbor/4350627292/

Papert, S. (1995). Why School Reform is Impossible.

The Journal of the Learning Sciences, 6(4), 417-427.

Papert, S., & Harel, I. (1991). Constructionism.

New York City: Ablex Publishing Corporation.

Moyle, K. (2010). Building innovation: learning with

technologies. Camberwell, Australia: Australian Council for Educational Research.

Kim, J. (2010, 6 April, 2010). 11 ideas about which I may

be wrong. Retrieved 13 April, 2010, from here

Siemens, G. (2005). Connectivism: A learning theory for the digital age. International Journal of Instructional

Technology and Distance Learning, 2(1).

Coghlan, E., Crawford, J., Little, J., Lomas, C., Lombardi, M.,

Oblinger, D., et al. (2007). ELI Discovery Tool: Guide to Blogging: EDUCAUSE.

Jones, D., & Luck, J. (2009). Blog Aggregation Management:

Reducing the Aggravation of Managing Student Blogging. Paper presented at the World Conference on EducationMultimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2009. from http://www.editlib.org/p/31530.