Facilitating Community Blogging Circles
This is a follow-up to Jen Ross’ excellent comment, which I insert here: …from my point of view the danger isn’t so much ridicule and indifference as a construction of a writing self that ‘hides its own mechanisms’ – that Continue reading High-Stakes Reflective Blogging within Cohorts
One of the greatest challenges I have had as a literacy educator is to reconcile the teaching of the strictly academic writing curriculum with real needs of learners whose interests in academic writing are limited. The major obstacle for literacy Continue reading Blogging and Literacy Instruction
Path-Finding Activity: I was reviewing Lilia Efimova’s mathemagenic blog, and came across Jen Ross’ blog. Her ideas resonated with me in that I had summarized a crucial issue for student bloggers that needs to be addressed, and found many of Continue reading High-Stakes Reflection as Performance Blogging
The CoI framework is comprised of three interdependent and dynamic structural elements: social presence, cognitive presence, and teaching presence. Social Presence Social presence has been defined recently by Garrison (2009) as “the ability of participants to identify with the community Continue reading Scratch Notes – Frameworks for Learning
Robyn Philip and Jennifer Nicholls (2009) wrote an interesting article about group blogging, titled Group blogs: Documenting collaborative drama processes Here are some notes about the significance of play-building, a process that involves the documentation of collaboration, reflection and creativity. Continue reading About Play-Building and Using Group Blogs