reducing aggravation of student blogging: the story of bim
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Talk given at University of Canberra in 2010 talking about using BIM. Abstract and other resources online herehttp://bit.ly/bimstoryTRANSCRIPT
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
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nolifebeforecoffee/124659356/
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
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nolifebeforecoffee/124659356/
They answer questions (or not)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nolifebeforecoffee/124659356/
BIM aggregates/mirrors the student posts
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nolifebeforecoffee/124659356/
BIM “allocates” posts to questions
Unallocated
Submitted
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nolifebeforecoffee/124659356/
BIM shows students what it knows about their posts
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nolifebeforecoffee/124659356/
BIM provides teaching staff with management interface
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nolifebeforecoffee/124659356/
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
http://www.flickr.com/photos/daquellamanera/267095174/
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
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tamaiyuya/74134502/
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
http://www.flickr.com/photos/neeta_lind/1465408016/
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
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mager/2776666394/
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.