Topic(s): Introduction to Blogs as a Collaborative tool
Time: 15-20 min
Audience: Graduate students pursuing a doctorate degree in Instructional Technology and Distance Education at Nova Southeastern University in Florida. The classes in this program are entirely online and the students are a diverse group who, for the most part, have not met in person.
Purpose of lesson: This lesson is intended to introduce the concept of blogging to the students. Blogging, using Google Blogger or a similar platform, is a good way to introduce yourself to students and parents, as well as collaborate in graduate school or in a work environment. This lesson assumes the learner already has a Google account.
Objectives:
Students will be able to define the term blog and give an example of a situation where blogging could be used as a collaboration tool.
Students will be able to write an introduction blog entry and share with their peers in class by adding their group/partner as authors on the blog.
Introduction:
1. Please watch this short video on blog basics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjwUHXoi8lM
3. You will need to open a separate tab and access Google, sign in to your account, and choose the "Blogger icon" from the grid.
Procedure:
1. Please watch this video about setting up a blog and why blogging is a good tool to use for collaboration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9xI1wvL7Ow
2. As you watch the video, you might want to pause the video to set up your own blog, add a post and share the blog with me and another student in your group by adding authors to the blog.
Evaluation: After you have set up your own blog and added authors, please complete this short survey to evaluate the lesson: Lesson feedback
References:
ISTE
standards retrieved from www.iste.org
WPMU Dev (2013). What is a blog? Retrieved
from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjwUHXoi8lM
Teacher
Training Videos (2015). Quick introduction to blogging for students and
teachers. Narrated by Russell Stannard. Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9xI1wvL7Ow
