Using a Blog for Educational Purposes
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Session Overview
| Title | Using a Blog for Educational Purposes |
| Length | 120 minutes |
| Overview | Blogs – or 'web logs' – are most commonly associated with Reflective Journals but have a wide number of applications in education. This staff development session will examine the potential uses of blogs in Higher Education and the experience of use at UEL in particular. Paricipants will consider the criteria for choosing certain web-based software and set up a blog using the chosen software and evaluate the potential of the blogging software incorporated within UEL Plus. This session will also demonstrate automatic subscription to a blog via e-mail or 'reader' software. |
Intended Learning Outcomes
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By the end of the session, participants will be able to:
- Distinguish between different uses of blogs for different purposes in HE
- Identify a use or uses that suits the teaching context
- Choose and set up a blog to suit an identified context
- Add at least one entry to that blog which includes the use of other media in addition to text
- Explore other features of the blog such as ‘comments’, ‘pings’, ‘trackbacks’ and ‘blogrolls’.
Booking this Staff Development Session
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Group Session
This staff development session can be delivered as a standalone session for a small group (between 4-8 participants). If you are interested in arranging a standalone session for a team or department please email elearning@uel.ac.uk with details of the session(s) you are interested in.
Individual Session
If you are interested in attending a centrally organised session please email elearning@uel.ac.uk with details of the session you are interested in. Depending on individual interest we will endeavour to run at least one session a semester.
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