Blog Based Assignments
I've been using blog based assignments two weeks after blogs were first introduced in grade 7 math. Students are presented with a problem or assignment on either their own classroom blog, or my personal blog. They receive one week to complete these assignments, with a new assignment being presented to them on a weekly or more frequent basis.
Rational behind blog based assignments.
1- Blogs and the Internet are amazing teaching tools. The problems that I present to my students involve using the internet for research and discovery, thus transfering the discovery of information away from myself, and into the hands of my students.
2 - It allows me to reinforce concepts that I believe to be important to all my students. As some students do not attend class every single day this gives them a chance compete on assignments on the same level as every other student in their class.
3 - Encourage frequent visits to their class blog. A blog is only as successful as the students who contribute to it. By requiring my students to check the blog on a semi frequent basis I am indirectly pushing them towards participating in their online classroom.
Here are a sample of my online assignments
Polygon Assignment Polygons have not yet been introduced in class, yet students will have learned most of these polygons in years past. This assignment acts as an reintroduction of past concepts, and as a discovery for concepts that will be taught in future classes.
Blog Search Assignment This assignment opened students eyes to array of blogs that exist. I gave students a reason to search for information on something that inspired them, and used it as a teachable moment on the validity of information that they can find on a blog
I design blog assignments to be tools for discovery, not as a additional method of delivering class based work.
Rational behind blog based assignments.
1- Blogs and the Internet are amazing teaching tools. The problems that I present to my students involve using the internet for research and discovery, thus transfering the discovery of information away from myself, and into the hands of my students.
2 - It allows me to reinforce concepts that I believe to be important to all my students. As some students do not attend class every single day this gives them a chance compete on assignments on the same level as every other student in their class.
3 - Encourage frequent visits to their class blog. A blog is only as successful as the students who contribute to it. By requiring my students to check the blog on a semi frequent basis I am indirectly pushing them towards participating in their online classroom.
Here are a sample of my online assignments
Polygon Assignment Polygons have not yet been introduced in class, yet students will have learned most of these polygons in years past. This assignment acts as an reintroduction of past concepts, and as a discovery for concepts that will be taught in future classes.
Blog Search Assignment This assignment opened students eyes to array of blogs that exist. I gave students a reason to search for information on something that inspired them, and used it as a teachable moment on the validity of information that they can find on a blog
I design blog assignments to be tools for discovery, not as a additional method of delivering class based work.
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