My first major step into the world of school based ICT was back in 2008, starting a Blog. I set up my own blog page and posted tasks for my students to complete. I also had my students start their own blog pages as a place for them to post their answers and complete a range of tasks. The purpose of this activity was to familiarise my students with working on the internet and the variety of applications and terms that applied. By following the link above you can see my first page and the student pages in respose.
Some issues that I faced included;
* I was limited by the gadgets of the blog. I was unable to upload word documents, powerpoint presentations etc. I now know however that with applications such as Google docs and Mikogo etc. it is possible to easily link from my blog to these external apps.
* I found that I could only host one subject per blog. After thinking that I would like to have a web page dedicated to each of my subjects, I ended up starting an individual blog page for each subject.. 7 Blogs.. Very time consuming to manage. My solution to this issue was to start a wiki... More to come on that in the next post.
* Due to the public nature of the blogs, students who completed the tasks first had their work copied by those who waited until the last minute
Some positive aspects of this task included;
* Students found it enjoyable to complete tasks on the web, rather than answering in their workbooks.
* We all ended up following each others blogs and could comment / evaluate each others work.
Please feel free to comment and leave suggestions for improvement.
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