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Reading Blogs

For the CCP program I am beginning a resource list of blogs to supplement the readings for learners. To start off, here is a reading blog for Monkey Beach: English 1890 – Canadian literature (Monkey Beach blog prompt)

Berry-Picking, Evaluating Online Resources, and Addressing Plagiarism and Copyright

One important thing to let students know about when publishing to their blogs is that they need to provide details about where they found their sources, and not borrow large sections of content from other bloggers. Deep Linking, the act of creating links from your blog to specific pages of others’ web sites or blog…

Tips for Encouraging Anonymous Blogging

I think it is important to allow learners to interact anonymously if they so choose. The edublogs.org application enables the use of student avatars. I would recommend, however, that the use of anonymous learning activities be tied to specific codes of conduct to clearly outline the rules, etiquette, and methods of enforcement for users, and…

Journaling – the Starting Point of Blogging

I am putting together a series of journal writing assignments, and I felt that this would be a great way to contrast the way an instructor can use journaling with students and using the blogging tool for journaling. There are some distinct similiarities: 1. Both journaling in a notebook or hardbound diary and blogging invite…

Blogging is different from classroom writing (1)

There are so many reasons why students should start using blogs, and the first one that pops to mind for me is that you can “own” what you write. So often I have seen learners’ eyes go cloudy when required to write to form, pumping out assignments they have divested any energy or meaning. They…