BLOGGEREDIT9990 Learner Engagement

Cool Tool Demo

Eunbae Lee

November 7, 2013

AGENDA

What is blog and what is blogger?

What can blogger do for learning?

What can blogger do to enhance engagement?

BLOGGER

Blog – Informational site published on the Internet

and consisting of "posts” typically displayed in

reverse chronological order (the most recent post

appears first).

http://eunbae.blogspot.com/

BLOGGER

Google Tool – Login with your Google ID and connect to your other Google apps such as Gmail, and Google+

Reflective Writing – Academic Engagement

Social Interaction – Social Engagement

Commenting

Follow

Blog Roll

Traffic analytics

Other similar blogging tools

Wordpress: professional, bells and whistles

Tumblr: Popular among teens, focused on following rather than writing own

BLOGGER- HOW TO CREATE

BLOGGER- DASHBOARD

BLOGGER

Web-based journal writing

Cognitive engagement (Finn & Zimmer, 2012).

Writing is a complex cognitive task that supports

the construction of new knowledge by establishing

connections between prior domain knowledge and

knowledge about discourse (Bereiter&Scardamalia,

1987).

Writing requires reflection and meaningful

expression of learned material (Hayes & Flower,

1986).

BLOGGER- REFLECTIVE WRITING

BLOGGER - SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT

(FREDERICKS ET. AL., 2004)

Commenting

BLOGGER - SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT

(FREDERICKS ET. AL., 2004)

Social Media Connections

BLOGGER - SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT (FREDERICKS

ET. AL., 2004)

Following Blogroll

BLOGGER - SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT

(FREDERICKS ET. AL., 2004)

Traffic analytics

BLOGGER

Social interaction

Commenting

Follow

Blog Roll

Traffic analytics

Other similar blogging tools

Wordpress: professional, bells and whistles

Tumblr: Popular among teens, focused on following

rather than writing own

OTHER EDUCATIONAL USES OF BLOG

Class website

Competence

• EDIT2000

Teacher-Student-Parent Communication

Relatedness

• Mrs. Terhune’s First Grade Site

Student writing publications

Autonomy

• Living alongside Wildlife

DISCUSSION

Can blogging enhance students’ affective

engagement?

What are some strategies to enhance behavioral

engagements through blogging?

REFERENCES

Bereiter, C., &Scardamalia, M. (1987). The psychology of written composition. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Finn, J. D., & Zimmer, K. S. (2012). Student engagement: What is it? Why does it matter? In S. L. Christenson, A. L. Reschly& C. Wylie (Eds.), Handbook of research on student engagement. (pp. 97-131). New York: Springer

Fredricks, J. A., Blumenfeld, P. C., & Alison, H. P. (2004). School engagement: Potential of the concept, state of the evidence. Review of Educational Research, 74(1), 59-109. doi: 10.2307/3516061

Hayes, J.R., & Flower, L.S. (1986). Writing research and the writer. American Psychologist, 41, 1106-1113.