Dr Alan Howard » blogging http://www.alanhoward.info/ah Just another personal home page and blog Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:28:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 How blogging may help students deepen their learning http://www.alanhoward.info/ah/index.php/2009/05/29/how-blogging-may-help-students-deepen-their-learning/ http://www.alanhoward.info/ah/index.php/2009/05/29/how-blogging-may-help-students-deepen-their-learning/#comments Fri, 29 May 2009 13:04:40 +0000 admin http://www.alanhoward.info/ah/?p=130 If you would like to find out about how and why weblogs (‘blogs’) might be used to enhance learning watch this interesting video: http://lindsayjordan.edublogs.org/2009/05/29/blogging-with-students-how-and-why/ or read Lindsay’s full paper at:

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddj42whm_48g4n924f6

I will soon be undertaking a field trip to Crete during which students will maintain a blog to enable individual and collaborative reflection on events and issues they experience.

Exploration is fundamental to Geography and Geographers have a long history of sharing their travel observations with the public through publication in books and journals. Blogging provides a new outlet for this oldest geographical tradition and the blogs written in Crete will feature other Web 2.0 technologies including photo sharing, video and twitter.

Results to follow…

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