The Difference is the User, Not the Tool at BLC10 Day 3
My third and final day at BLC10 ( Building Learning Communities 2010 from November Learning ) brought yet another valuable message that will sure have an impact on my teaching: Web 2.0 tools don't make the difference, it's the user strategy that makes the difference. Class Blogs Darren Kuropatwa (see @dkuropatwa on Twitter) hosted a workshop called A Day in the Life . He talked about several ways that he allows his students to create their own academic content online that is related to his class. While he used many tools, he brought it all together to a central blog to share it with the world. The quality of the student entries on the blogs improved over the course of the year and the class got more and more visits . As a teacher, I have seen class blogs that teachers use to post their own lessons and handouts and other information, but they never let the students themselves control the content. Mr. Kuropatwa allows the students to run the class blog. This is why his worksh...