A PORTFOLIO ACTIVITY

Blogging for Reflection

What is a blog?

a “personalized webpage, kept by the author in reverse chronological diary form” (Du & Wagner, 2005, p. 2) or “a personal diary, kept on the web” (Fun & Wagner, 2005, p. 221).  

Permissions can be easily controlled

The author “owns” their blog and so has final control over the content

Paul’s History of Portfolio and Blogging

Project @ Dubai Women’s College in UAE

Studies lead to development of Portfolio Module

Thesis advisor picked blogging out of the portfolio

Eventually published: Post-Secondary Students’ Purposes for Blogging http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/560/1099

Why blog?

Social Presence – easier online?

Self-disclosure – sharing a journal

Emotional response and individual expression

Benchmarking – where do I stand?

Emotional Responses to Blogging

Please go to my ‘portfolio’ blog and leave a comment about today. You will find a question to answer.

http://blog.lesduke.com/index.php?blog=2 You have 5 minutes! Then come back here---------------------So, …?

Students … ?

How to blog?

Create a blog in SharePoint If you have a blog, skip this step! Or go to: http://edublogs.org/ https://www.blogger.com/start http://wordpress.com/

Make your first post by answering these questions:

What is your first thought when I say, “reflect on learning”? What advantages do you think blogging might offer you? What barriers are there to YOU keeping a blog? How do you think your students would react to blogging?

Post your blog address to the chat room Comment on others’ posts –

In SharePoint, click on the blog title – you will see a comments box.

References

Du, H. S., & Wagner, C. (2005). Learning with weblogs: An empirical investigation. Paper presented at the 2005 Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. http://csdl2.computer.org/comp/proceedings/hicss/2005/2268/01/22680007b.pdf

Fun, R. I. P. K., & Wagner, C. (2005). An exploratory study on the progress of social computing and its potential impact on organizational computing. Paper presented at the 2005 Proceedings of the Ninth Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems. http://www.pacis-net.org/file/2005/247.pdf

Leslie, P., & Murphy, E. 2008. Post-Secondary Students' Purposes For Blogging. The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning [Online] 9:3. Available: http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/560/1099