This assignment was very interesting to me, because when I first read about open content in the Horizon Report: 2013 K-12 Edition, I thought to myself that there were already ways in which I was utilizing open content resources and hadn't even realized it. As I progressed through the assignment, I began to think of all of the different components of open content and how many things I use every day that can be considered open content that I didn't realize, our video conferencing system for example. In some cases the conferencing sessions can be recorded and reviewed at later dates. I think that open content is a great resource for all levels of education.
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Thursday, October 31, 2013
Saturday, October 12, 2013
EDTECH Research
This assignment really helped me to reform a lesson idea that I had already started on, but hadn't yet had the opportunity to research and plan it out in its entirety. Blogging in the classroom is something that I have been very excited about the past few weeks, and have been taking the steps to introduce it to my students.
Last week, I introduced my class to blogging, but I had a difficult time explaining it in terms they understand. When we received our tablets a few weeks ago, the kids seemed to be under the impression that they could use them to chat back and forth. Their hope that this would be something they would be allowed to do, combined with my difficulty finding the right explanation, caused them to just interpret blogging as a way of talking back and forth. I managed to redirect most of them from this mentality, but there are still a few students who just can't wrap their heads around what a blog is. After researching blog integration for this assignment, I plan on backing things up a few steps and trying the "paper blogs" that Lacina and Griffith mentioned in their article, Blogging as a Means of Crafting Writing. I think this concrete way of showing the kids what blogging is all about will solidify the purpose of a blog for all of them. I also am now more comfortable with the idea of letting the kids choose some of their own topics to blog about so that their writing has more meaning to them. I wasn't sure about how comfortable I was with this notion at first, but the articles I read convinced me otherwise.
In regard to the citations themselves, there were two articles that I could not locate DOIs for. I used crossref.org, and tried looking up the journals themselves and could not locate any information beyond just URLs. I did include the DOIs that I could track down, and the URLs for the other articles. If anyone has advice for how I may track them down, I would really love to know about it! My hope (and what I had to finally resign myself to) is that they just may not have DOIs assigned to them.
Thank you for reading my post, you can access my research by clicking here.
Last week, I introduced my class to blogging, but I had a difficult time explaining it in terms they understand. When we received our tablets a few weeks ago, the kids seemed to be under the impression that they could use them to chat back and forth. Their hope that this would be something they would be allowed to do, combined with my difficulty finding the right explanation, caused them to just interpret blogging as a way of talking back and forth. I managed to redirect most of them from this mentality, but there are still a few students who just can't wrap their heads around what a blog is. After researching blog integration for this assignment, I plan on backing things up a few steps and trying the "paper blogs" that Lacina and Griffith mentioned in their article, Blogging as a Means of Crafting Writing. I think this concrete way of showing the kids what blogging is all about will solidify the purpose of a blog for all of them. I also am now more comfortable with the idea of letting the kids choose some of their own topics to blog about so that their writing has more meaning to them. I wasn't sure about how comfortable I was with this notion at first, but the articles I read convinced me otherwise.
In regard to the citations themselves, there were two articles that I could not locate DOIs for. I used crossref.org, and tried looking up the journals themselves and could not locate any information beyond just URLs. I did include the DOIs that I could track down, and the URLs for the other articles. If anyone has advice for how I may track them down, I would really love to know about it! My hope (and what I had to finally resign myself to) is that they just may not have DOIs assigned to them.
Thank you for reading my post, you can access my research by clicking here.
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