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6 comments:
Tēnā koe Sarah!
I've tried this recently - before I read your post (thanks). I have not had a great deal of success. In fact, the whole excercise was a bit of a time waster.
The problem seems to be that Blogger gets confused and does not recognise valid (Google) accounts which is peculiar, since Blogger is controlled by Google.
I'd have to think long and hard at my strategies before I attempted to involve a group of people in a private blog (ever) again.
BTW, I'm logged in under my Google account when I submit this comment :-0
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Ummmmm, gosh, I hope this works then. I didn't think one needed a Google account to be able to sign into Blogger until one of my students pointed it out.
Hi Sarah,
I'm missing the point here. I can see how there could be a point of individual students having a closed blog if they're engaging in personal reflection, but a class blog????
David: I understand your confusion.
What I have done is take the course out of BlackBoard and put it into a blog. Because the policy at the moment is to keep our courses closed, I have 'closed' the blog, which means only the students and I (and anyone I have personally invited) have access to the blog.
You may ask when I have bothered to do that - why not stay in BlackBoard? The reason is to slowly introduce midwives to other technology outside BlackBoard. Once they become familiar with Blogger, maybe they will then go on to develop their own blog etc. The other reason I have chosen this format is because I think conversation flows so much easier than in the BlackBoard discussion forum.
What I really would have liked to have done is require the students to reflect in their own blogs, but the course is too short for that, I think, ie 7 weeks. And I do not want to bog them down with too much technology.
Does that make sense?
Thanks for that.
Sounds reasonable.
Megan Gibbons has found a blog approach to be really useful for encouraging discussion in the nutrition paper she ran a few weeks ago. But her blog was open to all:
http://shannonstale.blogspot.com/
It will be interesting for me to see how things pan out in this 'closed' blog, and see what the students think.
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