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. http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/file/view/bloom%27s+Digital+taxonomy+v3.01.pdf
CommonCraft.com (2007). Blogs in plain English [Video file]. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN2I1pWXjXI
EDUCAUSE. (2005). 7 things you should know about blogs ( No. ELI7006). https://library.educause.edu/resources/2005/9/7-things-you-should-know-about-blogs
Citation
Kirkley, D. (2015). Incorporate blogs for reflection. In B. Chen & K. Thompson (Eds.), Teaching Online Pedagogical Repository. Orlando, FL: University of Central Florida Center for Distributed Learning. https://topr.online.ucf.edu/blog-as-a-reflection-tool/.