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How Students Developed Ownership of their Learning with Blogging

M.E. Ellen Graber Lichtman

http://teachingknowledge.wordpress.com

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TKT course setting

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Sample of TKT student writing

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Sample of TKT student writing

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Traits of Writing used by UMSNH

From TKT Student Syllabus:“Each written assignment will be graded following

the Department of Languages Guidelines which include:

• Ideas and content• Organization• Use of language• Sentence Fluency• Vocabulary• Use of conventions

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Why was this happening?

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Admissions Exam

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Writing Differences

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Writing Differences

Video we don’t speak americano

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Mere course requirement?

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E-portfolios community

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Students setting up their blogs

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Benefits of class blogging

Courtesy of Edna Sackson

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Student-centered classroom

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Student-created blog community

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Oral Tradition: Evidence around the world

Reflection of 77,681 visitors since December 2010 at What Ed Said: my mentor blog

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Oral Traditions: Closer Examination

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Edublog’s Visitor

Information

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Students’ Initial Reaction to Blogging

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A visit to our class blog: Homework

page

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Link to teacher challenge

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Guide-lines for blogging

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Thought-provoking

posts

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Some Web-based teaching tools

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Student’s wordle and comment

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Student blog = student centered learning

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Advantages of student blogs

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Blogging results

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Resistance to change

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Class Sentiments

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Wrap up

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New Project: Just a Peekhttp://writingcu.wordpress.com/2011/09/26/just-a-peek-writing-community/

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