Uses of Blogs for Staff and Students
Scott Leslie’s “Matrix of Some Blog Uses in Education” has been remixed into an interactive drag and drop tool that can help faculty and others brainstorm different ways to use blogs as an activity and process, not just an end product.
Scott Leslie created the very helpful “Matrix of Some Blog Uses in Education” a few years ago and yesterday he reported that it had been remixed into an interactive drag and drop tool that we can all add to. So if we want to start a conversation about what teachers can get from reading blogs or what students can learn from writing blogs, this is a nice tool to frame and capture the discussion. As Scott says:
…we can see this being a useful tool to use with faculty or others in workshops to brainstorm different uses they can make of blogs and blogging and help them see it as an activity and process, not an end product (which was a main goal of the ‘matrix’).
Blog as process…what a concept! And yet another example of how freely sharing our ideas to be tweaked by others can create all sorts of opportunities for deeper learning. Just imagine if our teachers were more willing to put their best ideas out there for others to build on…
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