Hi,
I have been using this function (personal blog) in Blackboard with a small group of students in a Research Methods module. It formed part of their class marks and students kind of had to use it.As a lecturer, it can get very time intensive if one is trying to follow and comment on all entrys of all students. I set it up that students in that module could see and comment on each other's journals. It was really successful once student got over their initial "fear" of being judged. They started asking questions about their research project sand helped each other out with links etc. When we discussed the research journal (blog) in the end, they all agreed it had helped them to stay on track and be more organized and actually think about and reflect on what they were doing . We are using it now on more modules.
Best wishes,
Kerstin
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From: Virtual Learning Environments on behalf of ACKROYD, PHIL
Sent: Tue 23/01/2007 18:30
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Subject: Re: [VLES] Using a VLE to track student progress
Do you have the blog tool in your version of Blackboard? (Also called
journal LX I think; it may be a building blog you have to pay for) A
lecturer here with entry level students is looking at experimenting with
putting the settings for this to "private blog", essentially making it a
private online journal for the student, seen only by the student and
their lecturer. Lecturer can add comments to the journal entries of the
students. I am not sure how successful this has been, but an
interesting idea.
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Sent: 23 January 2007 13:05
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Subject: [VLES] Using a VLE to track student progress
Hi,
I am a Basic Skills lecturer at Amersham & Wycombe College and I work
with
learners at pre-entry through to level 1. Each student has Literacy and
Numeracy targets that they work towards and the current method for
recording this information is paper based.
For my PGCE action research I am looking at using Blackboard to record
and
track the students' progress towards their individual Basic Skills
targets.
I want to look at examples of good practice in using VLEs and in
particular how colleges/schools track student progress and I would be
very
grateful for any further information anybody has on this.
Thanks,
Jo Baker
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