Collaboration within our blogs reminded me of commenting on Facebook statuses. At first I found it somewhat intimidating leaving my thoughts on others blogs for everyone to see, but as time progressed the act of commenting became less of a chore and quite enjoyable. To illustrate how I built up this confidence to be more collaborative in my commenting, I have broken this experience into three topics: participation, benefits and drawbacks. From these you will further understand how I plan to implement online collaboration in my teaching.
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Online Collaboration in my Teaching
Although I enjoyed the collaborative aspect of this experience, I feel that if I was to implement it in my teaching it would have to include all of George Siemens (2002) four stage continuum, see course material.
Blogging, to me, certainly encapsulated three of the four stages as explained by Siemens.
Communication: through commenting on blog posts.
Collaboration: through sharing concepts and even extracts of essays (Thank you Laura)
Community building: I now have a network of people I can bounce ideas off of.
However I found that there was no chance for cooperative work as each reflection/post was an individual assessment.
To improve this for my classroom I would base online collaboration around George Siemens (2002) four stage continuum as follows:
Communication: Ensure students have the ability to not only discuss idea with each other, but with other people around the world. This could be achieved by setting up activities with partner schools or organising opportunities for workplace professionals to interact with students.
Cooperation: Create a supportive environment where each student formulates an idea on an interactive mind map. Other students can add their perspectives allowing the original student to collate the ideas and form an appropriate answer.
Collaboration: Always keep previous work fresh in the minds of your students. Allow them to improve their work by reading what others have to say about it. Set online group work which requires a shared effort.
- Community building: Promote individualised, personalised learning by letting students turn to their peers for help. This will allow them to build their own network, this could extend outside the classroom to workplace professionals as well.
I really liked the link you made between Facebook and blogging. Never thought of that before! I also love all the links you have embedded. Great idea!
ReplyDeletei liked how you highlighted the drawbacks of commenting on blogs in particular commenting for the sake of it. i also found myself in that predicament as well.
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