Learning log to Learning (B)log - a great example

In my recent research into school blogging one of the main uses for blogs, that would be easy for any teacher to put in place, was to keep an online learning log. Why? So that peer assessment could take place quicker and more often than it does when paper versions of learning logs are used. From the US Canada via Mr Kuropatwa comes this great example of a teacher setting out the guidelines for learning blogging. Miss Nicholson uses a scribe system to make the process work.

What did we do in class today?
What did we learn during these activities?
Was this new information or something I've seen in math or another class before?
Was the material difficult or easy to understand?
Is there something that I still don't understand and could ask my classmates to explain?
Did anything else happen during class that would be fun to keep a record of?

Kuropatwa also points out the addictive nature of the learning blog for other students. What?! Pupils desperate to revise what they learned in today's lesson? Well, if their classmates are the copyeditors, then yes.

Comments

[Darren Kuropatwa]

Hi Ewan,

One of the most exciting thing about the post you highlighted by Miss Nicholson is that she is a student teacher who just picked up on blogs while working with Erin's class.

Cheers!

BTW, we're in Winnipeg, Manitoba in Canada and Kuropatwa has got one "u" and one "o." ;-)

[Ewan McIntosh]

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