Fieldwork Flogging:

Learning with Web 2.0

Dr Mary PryorHistory of Art

School of Divinity, History & Philosophy

The challenge…

Spring 2008:Explore new ways of learning & teaching with your students.

Join the mobile technology initiative. Could you use free

laptops for your students?

Wow! How? With whom? Ah, Level 3 fieldwork course!!

Class trips / reading / exhibition reviews…

Autumn 2008:Perhaps you could

incorporate something from the new student email

system?

We want them to be active: to reflect on

and share their fieldwork experiences with each other and us

in an ongoing log…

Yes, please!

Perhaps...?

From Fieldwork Log to Flog!

• Windows Live account with social networking site, incorporating ‘blog’ facility

• Not just a blog – we want a reflective and interactive online Fieldwork Log using text and images

• It’s a Flog!• Student and staff entry by invitation from

the site owner• Through peer and staff comments and

questions: ongoing formative feedback!

See it..

History of ArtMobile Technology Project

Fieldwork Logs (‘Flogs’)

• Via their student email social networking

facilities, Level 3 History of Art students, who

have each received a university laptop, have

opened reflective and interactive online

Fieldwork Logs (‘Flogs’) using text and images

• Ongoing formative feedback is given in the

form of questions and comments from their peers

and staff

Read it…

Comment

Monet’s London works reveal…

Pose question

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‘Flog’ it…

My Flog

Reflect…

What’s next?

Level 4:

• Assessed fieldwork portfolio:

– Presented as an ePortfolio (in WebCT)

– Incorporating elements of the Flog

– Offering opportunity to cite each other

in a formal piece of academic writing