PowerPoint: Blogogogy: critical assessment of blogs

Instructor Assessment
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Assessment of Blogs
Do Blogs lend themselves to assessment?
What makes a good blog entry?
How can you measure what students have learned based on their blogs?
Can you use your standard assessment strategies with blogs, or are they somehow different?

AES Technology Training Stephen Casmar, Technology Coordinator Nov. 4, 2010
What things can you assess?
Quality of their writing, vocabulary, etc.
How well they understand the concepts of their topics and can express those as well as their thought process
How well they can analyze what their peers have written
Their learning by reflecting on their own posts as well as the post "strings" of their peers
Artifacts ~ to support their ideas
AES Technology Training Stephen Casmar, Technology Coordinator Nov. 4, 2010
How can we measure this?
Starting with the best…
Blogging on Blogging
Can be done weekly or summative
Reflect on all their prior posts
A rubric will help encourage them to do this in a meaningful way, otherwise you may get their original posts reloaded
Even cooler? Reflect on another student's learning, commenting on their growth ~ students may be a surprised what a peer notices about their leaning

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Reflection
Reflect on and write about what they've learned (including which sources helped them the most)
How it altered their way of: information gathering, viewing the world, politics, etc.
What don't I understand (this is a great place for their peers to jump in and help out)
What do I need to do more research or reading on
Where do I want to go from here… is there room in class to pursue their interests


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Self Assessment
Teach and Learn Canada, Self-assessment sheet, Retrieved November 2, 2010 from Teach and Learn Canada Web site: http://www.teachandlearn.ca/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/Self-Assessment%20Sheet.jpg
AES Technology Training Stephen Casmar, Technology Coordinator Nov. 4, 2010
AES Technology Training Stephen Casmar, Technology Coordinator Nov. 4, 2010
And more reasons…
Allows the student to become a subject expert
Lack of time in the classroom or shyness will not be a factor when blogging
They can see not only their peers' opinions but their peers' thought processes as well!
Technology itself may be a motivational factor for some students
Forces reading critically and responding in a coherent thoughtful way
AES Technology Training Stephen Casmar, Technology Coordinator Nov. 4, 2010
Blogogogy
Assessing Student Blogs
AES Technology Training Stephen Casmar, Technology Coordinator Nov. 4, 2010
Why Blog?
Blogs are constructivist in nature, allowing students to make meaning from their own thoughts and interactions
Allows for Reflection (their own as well as reflection on what their peers' opinions are)
Helps in building new ideas based on this reflection
Allows artifacts to be uploaded (e-Portfolio) these can then be analyzed in the future
Publishing for the "world" may give students a greater sense of importance in their work
Social interaction helps the learning process


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What's Next?
Let's put ourselves into Their Place
Go to http://aes.ac.in/scasmar/blogworkshop/blog.php and post a blog entry that includes three things that spoke to you during this presentation (10 minutes) then comment on one of your peers' blogs (10 minutes)
Break into groups of 4 based on your discipline and brainstorm how blogging can enhance your teaching, the students understanding and learning, and what you might assess (20 minutes)
Break into groups of 4 with teachers from other disciplines and share what you discovered in steps 1 & 2 – what new perspectives did they have?

AES Technology Training Stephen Casmar, Technology Coordinator Nov. 4, 2010
AES Technology Training Stephen Casmar, Technology Coordinator Nov. 4, 2010
Franker, K. (2010, February 12). A Rubric for Evaluating Student Blogs. Retrieved October 08, 2010, from https://www2.uwstout.edu/content/profdev/rubrics/blogrubric.html
Conclusions
Blogs are social, constructivist, and reflective
Students may become subject matter-experts, be unconstrained by time and/or shyness, see both their and their peers' thought processes, reflect on their learning, and build new ideas
Assessment can include the quality of their writing, conceptualization, analytic skills, and support of their theorems using external artifacts
Simple assessment may include self-reflection (blogging on blogging) and peer-assessment
More in depth assessment may include content creativity, voice, DTP (text, graphics, multimedia), timeliness and tagging, citations, and the quality of student writing and proof reading
AES Technology Training Stephen Casmar, Technology Coordinator Nov. 4, 2010
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