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Blogging to Learn
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Anne Bartlett-Bragg
Dip HRM (Monash), BEd Ad Ed (UTS), MEd Ad Ed (UTS), Cert IV A&WT.
University of Technology , Sydney , Australia
email: Anne.Bartlett-Bragg@uts.edu.au
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Anne Bartlett-Bragg currently develops and delivers e-Learning content, including the recently launched AQTF Diploma of e-Learning, in the Faculty of Education at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Anne is particularly interested in computer-mediated communication and intends to commence her PhD in this field in 2004. She has delivered papers both nationally and in the UK on enhancing learning with blogs.
Have you considered using blogs within your pedagogical practice? Do you know what a blog is? This excellent article makes a significant contribution to the flexible learning debate. Anne Bartlett-Bragg describes the phenomena of blogging, the process of blogging and how it can be used to enhance learning. The theoretical underpinnings of blogging are discussed and an explanation is given of how blogs can be used to enhance learning, so that learners may progress beyond surface learning to self directed deep learning. It is only when learners achieve deep learning will they seek out connections between concepts and be able to contextualise meaning.
This is a well written article which is timely and appropriate for flexible learning practitioners. It is soundly based on theory, as well as grounded research.
Anne provides a “5 Stage Blogging Process” and explains how blogs can be incorporated into pedagogical practice. References are provided to a number of useful sites that will explain what a blog is and how it can be used. It is acknowledged in this article that there is no shortage of technology options for educators but do they enhance learning? It is argued that blogs do.
This article will ignite your interest. Enter the Blog-0-sphere, it might just change your life!
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