enquiryblogger: a learning futures tool
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EnquiryBlogger: A Learning Futures Tool
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Simon Buckingham Shum & Rebecca Ferguson The Open University Ruth Deakin Crick University of Bristol
Learning Futures Programme – Manchester Residential, 3-4 Dec 2010
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/uk
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Blogging for learning research (from the project proposal)
Blogs offer learners opportunities to incorporate many perspectives, develop carefully crafted contributions, reflect and make considered responses to others (Ferguson et al., 2007). This medium provides an environment in which people can observe, articulate and refine practices (Efimova et al., 2004).
At the same time, by making use of the comment facility, bloggers are able to share thoughts, ideas and opinions (Du and Wagner, 2005). In order for students to engage effectively with this emerging genre, they need to be able to experiment and take ownership of their writing, learning to develop a blog as a space for personal learning, reflection and interaction (Bryman and Burgess, 1994).
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The concept: tune a world class
blogging platform to serve as a learning journal for enquiry-based learning
…encapsulate principles emerging from the
Learning Futures research, as a set of optional plug-ins…
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www.wordpress.org
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3 intersecting stories
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3 intersecting stories
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3 intersecting stories
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3 intersecting stories
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3 dimensions of enquiry
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3 dimensions of enquiry
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…after 20 days intensive design + coding…
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blog posts
Wordpress comes with thousands of optional plug-ins, accessed via
“widgets” that you can add
image widget
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Using the image widget to present a school-specific enquiry scaffold
(Cramlington)
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Learning Futures plugins
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Composing and categorising a blog post
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Standard blog editor, inc. option to embed
multimedia
Categories from the U. Bristol enquiry-based
thinking/learning capabilities, which are
visualized by the plugins
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Choosing
Connecting
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Viewable on mobile devices
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What’s coming next?...
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Learning Analytics: Teacher’s dashboard for overview + quick navigation to key points in learners’ blog
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Learning Analytics: Teacher’s dashboard for overview + quick navigation to key points in learners’ blog
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Learning Analytics: Teacher’s dashboard for overview + quick navigation to key points in learners’ blog
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Mapping & Connecting (with OU’s Compendium)
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Drag + Drop text, images or links direct from the blog into the map
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Mapping & Connecting (with OU’s Compendium)
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Example of a template to scaffold reflection and connection making
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Wordpress standard features which add value during an enquiry “Press This” bookmarklet: a button which you add to
your browser toolbar enabling you post a blog on any extract you find on the web
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Wordpress standard features which add value during an enquiry
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References
BRYMAN, A. & BURGESS, R. G. (1994) Analyzing qualitative data, London ; New York, Routledge.
DU, H. S. & WAGNER, C. (2005) Learning with weblogs: an empirical investigation. 38th international conference on system sciences. Hawaii.
EFIMOVA, L., FIEDLER, S., VERWIJS, C. & BOYD, A. (2004) Legitimised theft: distributed apprenticeship in weblog netorks. I-know 04. Graz, Austria.
FERGUSON, R., CLOUGH, G. & HOSEIN, A. (2007) Postgraduate blogs: beyond the ordinary research journal. IN WHEELER, S. & WHITTON, N. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 14th Association for Learning Technology Conference (ALT-C 2007) Beyond Control: Learning Technology for the Social Network Generation.
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