Blog as a reflection tool
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Description
- Instructor: UCF's Ms. Debbie Kirkley
- Course Title: EME5208 Production Techniques for Instructional Settings
Instructor Testimony
UCF education professor Debbie Kirkley uses student blogs to fulfill the requirement of students to keep a journal throughout the semester to reflect on course projects and their experiences. The benefits of using this type of blog are as follows:
- Provides authentic learning opportunities: Create user generated content
- Motivation
- Ease of use
- Integrate links, videos, other web resources
- Increase interaction and collaboration – comments, peer review
- Students practice technology skills that will directly transfer into future work settings
Link to example artifact(s)
Explore a student example from Debbie Kirkley’s class: http://lulamurple.blogspot.com/
Link to scholarly reference(s)
Church, A. (2008). Bloom's digital taxonomy. Retrieved from http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/file/view/bloom%27s+Digital+taxonomy+v3.01.pdf
EDUCAUSE. (2005). 7 things you should know about Blogs ( No. ELI7006). Retrieved from http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7006.pdf
Leslie, S. (2003). Some Uses of Blogs in Education. Retrieved from 
CommonCraft.com (2007). Blogs in Plain English [Video file]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN2I1pWXjXI
Citation
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Seilhamer, R. & Chen, B. (2011). Blog as a reflection tool. In K. Thompson and B. Chen (Eds.), Teaching Online Pedagogical Repository. Orlando, FL: University of Central Florida Center for Distributed Learning. Retrieved May 21, 2013 from http://topr.online.ucf.edu/index.php?title=Blog_as_a_reflection_tool&oldid=2158