Getting More Out of Student Blogging | Sue Waters Blog Through ETMOOC participants like Lorraine Boulos are realizing ”I am not just learning HOW to connect but WHY connect” and are now trying to transfer the skills they’re learning into their classrooms. So I’ve put together tips for getting the most out of blogging with your student (you can watch the recorded ETMOOC student blogging session here). For more information I recommend you work through our step by step guide to blogging with students. About my work But first to help you appreciate why I was asked to facilitate blogging session — I’ve been supporting educational blogs on Edublogs.org, Edublogs Campus and WPMU DEV since 2008. We host over 2 million Edublogs worldwide in all educational sectors (K! Pretty much 365 days a year I provide blogging assistance and get to see how blogs are used by different sectors globally. The following ClustrMaps is from The Edublogger to provide you with an indication of the spread of educational blogging. How blogs are used These are: Scaffold vs Struggle
TPACK & SAMR | Rural & Distance Education - CAP NSW As modern educators we must consider which technologies to use with what pedagogies for teaching specific content to particular students. This involves: Knowing the existence, components and capabilities of various technologies as they are used in teaching and learning settings;How teaching might change as the result of using particular technologies;Understanding that a range of tools exist for a particular task, the ability to choose a tool based on its fitness and affordances;Pedagogical strategies most suitable to use with particular technologies. The 20th century question was ,‘Is there some form of technology readily available?’ TPACK attempts to capture some of the essential qualities of knowledge required by teachers for technology integration in their teaching, while addressing the complex, multifaceted and situated nature of teacher knowledge. Further reading Ruben R.