Share with us...
- Your TAKEAWAY(s) of the day...
- One implementation issue that you would like to bring up for discussion [This is in preparation for our Session 3].
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Dear Colleagues
Thank you for your inputs... we'll consolidate and discuss some of the key concerns raised.
For more "implementation concerns/issues", do submit through the posting at the end of this blog.
ETD Maths Team (26 July 2007)
27 comments:
Takeaway: How to monitor students' input.
Query: How can we ensure students do not go out of focus in the discussion?
Takeaways
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1. can set rules to guide students' postings. the rules also give the teacher a good reason to censor comments if necessary.
2. aggregators
3. group blogging
Takeaway: Group blog settings and authoring
Still needs a lot of practice to be acquainted with the platform.
Takeaway:
1) Group blog. Very useful when many students are users of the blog.
2) Aggregators. Never knew I could do that
Interesting but a bit too much to absorb for the day !
Must try at home...
Takeaway: Can allow my students to post their own msgs in my blog (Group Blog)
Query: How to ensure students post relevant stuff (and not rubbish) on the blog (responsibility issues?)
I learnt how to beautify my blog.
1) How to monitor inputs by pupils.
2) How to block 'unwanted' audience.
Takeaways:
1) How to manage pupils' input.
2) group blogging
Takeaway: how to do group blog..interesting
I have learnt to invite people to my blog and to use the google reader to track new postings on my blog.
It seems a bit troublesome to get students to co-author my blog. They have to create their own blogging accounts before they can co-author my blog. Is there any way that does not require them to create any account first?
It's great to learn about how to monitor blogs but I begin to be blur as more things to remember...guess I just have to practice in order to remember
The part on Settings, Permissions and Invitations to Blog.
Takeaway:Blogging can be used for learning of maths and science concepts. It can be done in various ways such as uploading of pictures or diagrams. Teachers can check the progress of the students through blogging also.
Implementation: Can blogging be used for independent learning or e-learning.
Takeaway : (i)How to create group blogs (ii)how to invite them
Issue : How to make sure that students do not misuse the blogs , i.e. to use constructively?
Takeaway:
How to manage & monitor blog.
For discussion:
Teaching blog etiqutte to my pupils...
Need to consider not only the learning activity but the tracking of students' responses to the blog.
I have learned how to :
- edit and do settings for my blogs and postings.
- invite authors
- remove comments
- use of aggregators for monitoring
Takeaway: How to do Group Blog, what is an aggregator.
Takeaways:
(i) How to create group blogs
(ii) How to invite others to our blogs
Issue : How to make sure that the students do not misuse blogs./ Bala
Takeaway: Many new ways of using a blog to facilitate discussion and projects.
Query: How do we get them to respect other students' views and to think before posting?
There are many ways of using blogs in Maths like monitor students' project work. Also can do the group Blogs.
I am amazed that there are so many ways of using blogs in Maths such as (1) monitoring project work
(2) Maths trail (3) Puzzles (4) Group Blogs
That feeds from pupils can be monitored through email is another wonderful thing for the busy teacher to manage monitoring of which pupils have gone in & which have not.
The only problem that I have with implementation is that my 4NA pupils are sitting for prelim and N level exams in a few weeks' time and may not have the time to log in to see my posting.
Takeaway:
Besides getting quick responses from students, blogs can also be used in other ways, eg. let students log their progress in a project/learning journey; group blog which allows different people to put up posts; as a form of resource site etc
Concerns:
How to keep the blog 'current', knowing that we may be too busy to update the contents or respond to the comments?
The group blog is interesting. Can get a group of teachers to co-author a blog for math activities to stimulate math interest in pupils. Will relief the stress of having to update blog frequently.
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