cool tool demo: blogger
DESCRIPTION
I discuss the educational use of Blogger for enhancing students' cognitive and social engagement.TRANSCRIPT
BLOGGEREDIT9990 Learner Engagement
Cool Tool Demo
Eunbae Lee
November 7, 2013
AGENDA
What is blog and what is blogger?
What can blogger do for learning?
What can blogger do to enhance engagement?
BLOGGER
Blog – Informational site published on the Internet
and consisting of "posts” typically displayed in
reverse chronological order (the most recent post
appears first).
http://eunbae.blogspot.com/
BLOGGER
Google Tool – Login with your Google ID and connect to your other Google apps such as Gmail, and Google+
Reflective Writing – Academic Engagement
Social Interaction – Social Engagement
Commenting
Follow
Blog Roll
Traffic analytics
Other similar blogging tools
Wordpress: professional, bells and whistles
Tumblr: Popular among teens, focused on following rather than writing own
BLOGGER- HOW TO CREATE
BLOGGER- DASHBOARD
BLOGGER
Web-based journal writing
Cognitive engagement (Finn & Zimmer, 2012).
Writing is a complex cognitive task that supports
the construction of new knowledge by establishing
connections between prior domain knowledge and
knowledge about discourse (Bereiter&Scardamalia,
1987).
Writing requires reflection and meaningful
expression of learned material (Hayes & Flower,
1986).
BLOGGER- REFLECTIVE WRITING
BLOGGER - SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT
(FREDERICKS ET. AL., 2004)
Commenting
BLOGGER - SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT
(FREDERICKS ET. AL., 2004)
Social Media Connections
BLOGGER - SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT (FREDERICKS
ET. AL., 2004)
Following Blogroll
BLOGGER - SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT
(FREDERICKS ET. AL., 2004)
Traffic analytics
BLOGGER
Social interaction
Commenting
Follow
Blog Roll
Traffic analytics
Other similar blogging tools
Wordpress: professional, bells and whistles
Tumblr: Popular among teens, focused on following
rather than writing own
OTHER EDUCATIONAL USES OF BLOG
Class website
Competence
• EDIT2000
Teacher-Student-Parent Communication
Relatedness
• Mrs. Terhune’s First Grade Site
Student writing publications
Autonomy
• Living alongside Wildlife
DISCUSSION
Can blogging enhance students’ affective
engagement?
What are some strategies to enhance behavioral
engagements through blogging?
REFERENCES
Bereiter, C., &Scardamalia, M. (1987). The psychology of written composition. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Finn, J. D., & Zimmer, K. S. (2012). Student engagement: What is it? Why does it matter? In S. L. Christenson, A. L. Reschly& C. Wylie (Eds.), Handbook of research on student engagement. (pp. 97-131). New York: Springer
Fredricks, J. A., Blumenfeld, P. C., & Alison, H. P. (2004). School engagement: Potential of the concept, state of the evidence. Review of Educational Research, 74(1), 59-109. doi: 10.2307/3516061
Hayes, J.R., & Flower, L.S. (1986). Writing research and the writer. American Psychologist, 41, 1106-1113.