Using Blogs to Promote Writing and Student Interaction
I have had an increase in enquiries from staff in the college recently about using collaborative tools for learning. The fact that people are beginning to see the benefits of these collaborative spaces is a welcome development. With that in mind, this is a timely research paper from Miriam Sullivan and Nancy Longnecker from the […]
Twitter for Teaching and Research
I recently began a Master’s degree in Digital Education with University of Edinburgh. The first module is Investigating Digital Environments for Learning, and one of the environments we looked as was Twitter. In a tutorial the course tutor, Prof Hamish McCleod, said that when he first encountered Twitter he just “didn’t get it”. I also […]
Blackboard: Blog vs Journal, is there is a difference?
In the current version of Blackboard (9.1) there are two options if you want to have your students completing a reflective writing or journal/diary exercise – use the Blog or Journal tools. The features in each are the same, so what’s the difference? Blog Blogs are designed to be visible to and allow comments from everyone […]
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