Blogging as a Digital tool
Blogging can improve students’ writing skills and build their confidence as writers. By blogging, students can take ownership of their writing, become better observers of others’ writing, and develop a more immediate and powerful understanding of audience. Blogs encourage experimenting and risk-taking, seriousness and play, and they foster an increased awareness of private and public writing. Blogging blends both the freeing aspect of short pieces that can be written in a relatively low-stakes environment with the sense of claiming one’s own voice and learning how to develop analysis and articulate ideas to a larger public. Guided by clear expectations of what is required in a class blog, students can see their writing develop over the course of the term (Gayle Morris)
References
Gayle Morris, Sweetlan Centre for Writing, University of Michigan, 2015(Using Blogs in the Classroom)
Blogging can improve students’ writing skills and build their confidence as writers. By blogging, students can take ownership of their writing, become better observers of others’ writing, and develop a more immediate and powerful understanding of audience. Blogs encourage experimenting and risk-taking, seriousness and play, and they foster an increased awareness of private and public writing. Blogging blends both the freeing aspect of short pieces that can be written in a relatively low-stakes environment with the sense of claiming one’s own voice and learning how to develop analysis and articulate ideas to a larger public. Guided by clear expectations of what is required in a class blog, students can see their writing develop over the course of the term (Gayle Morris)
A class blog or individual student blogs could be completely private and classroom-based, with
the only users and viewers being you as the instructor and your enrolled students. A class blog
also may be completely public and accessible to anyone online. Making this technology on the SAMR model come in at minimum modification level and almost venturing into redefinition.
References
Gayle Morris, Sweetlan Centre for Writing, University of Michigan, 2015(Using Blogs in the Classroom)
