This is the last (for now) in my series of posts on using blogs for learning. Earlier this week, Lee Kraus wrote a post on finding the time to blog. He mentioned that he has a two-hour drive every day, which leaves lots of time for thinking, but not for writing. Time is always a challenge for bloggers, but if you're in the car two hours a day, audio blogging... Read more →
This week we're exploring various strategies for using a blog to support personal and formal learning as part of the Work Literacy course's focus on blogging. Today we're going to talk about "how to's" or instructional blogging. "How to" posts can serve a few purposes in terms of learning. They're a great tool for assessing skill development. If you can write an effective instructional post, then you're demonstrating you have... Read more →
For this week's Web 2.0 Wednesday activity, we're going to tie in with our ongoing series on using blogs for learning. Your task is simple--share your favorite blogging for learning activity. You can do so in comments here or write your own blog post to share. If you blog about it, be sure to use the "web2.0wednesday" tag and then leave me a link here in comments. Looking forward to... Read more →
This week we're exploring various strategies for using a blog to support personal and formal learning as part of the Work Literacy course's focus on blogging. Today we're going to discuss running a blog challenge. What is a Blog Challenge? In a blog challenge, several bloggers work together on a group learning project over a period of time--a few days, a week, a month. Each day during the challenge, learning... Read more →
This week on Work Literacy, we're exploring how to use blogs for personal learning and as part of more structured formal events with learners. I haven't done a week-long series in a while, so I thought it would be fun to spend this week sharing different kinds of activities that could be used to support learning with blogs. Today we're going to talk about how we could use quotes as... Read more →