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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)
http://alevelgerman.wordpress.com/2011/10/14/sathus-partei/
http://alevelgerman.wordpress.com/2010/11/18/trendsport-oder-vereinssport/
4.Developing speaking
(KS5)
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
Getting students to blog
@bertramrichter
Curriculum Leader – MFLTile Hill Wood School & Language CollegeCoventry