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Workshop: Blogs for beginners

David Piggott /

Work your way through the following questions to start a series of short discussions. Please summarise your responses in the reply box below, making reference to the question number in the response.

(see the blog page for assistance if you get stuck)

  1. What is the difference between a blog and a normal website?
  2. In what situation might you use blogs for an assessment?
  3. If you decided to use a blog for an assessment, how would your institution be able to help?
  4. What problems can you foresee in using blogs for assessment?

Workshop: Wikis for beginners

David Piggott /

Work your way through the following questions to start a series of short discussions. Please summarise your responses in the reply box below, making reference to the question number in the response.

(see the wiki page for assistance if you get stuck)

  1. What is the difference between a wiki and a normal website?
  2. In what situation might you use wikis for an assessment?
  3. If you decided to use a wiki for an assessment, how would your institution be able to help?
  4. What problems can you foresee in using wikis for assessment?

Workshop: Blogs for users

David Piggott /

Your task here is to consider the following scenario and discuss how you would deal with one or more of the issues arising (numbered below). After your discussion, please summarise your response in the reply box below (remember to cite the number of the issue in your reply).

Scenario:

Your  assessment requires a class of 20 students to each create and maintain a journal of a placement experience using blogging software. The assessment is based around the demonstration of reflective practice.

Issues:

  1. The students start to complain about the assessment, claiming they don’t understand why their journals have to be written via a blog (i.e. what is the value added by the blog versus word processing?)
  2. Where would you set the privacy levels of the blogs (open to the world; open to the group only; open to the author and staff member only; allow or block comments etc.)?
  3. Some students complain they are at a disadvantage due to a lack of technical skill and experience. A small number of students are regular bloggers and well versed in embedding multimedia and graphics, making their blogs much more attractive and engaging.
  4. What criteria do you use for grading the blogs? Is quality or quantity of posts more important? What are the relative weightings for content and style?

Workshop: Wikis for users

David Piggott /

Your task here is to consider the following scenario and discuss how you would deal with one or more of the issues arising (numbered below). After your discussion, please summarise your response in the reply box below (remember to cite the number of the issue in your reply).

Scenario:

Your assessment requires a class of 30 students to create pages in a wiki. The aim is to develop a helpful resource that others could use in the future.

Issues:

  1. Would you have the students create pages alone, or working in small groups?
  2. (assuming groups) How would you organise the groups? (topic interest, self-selection, skills balance, randomly?) How would you allocate the marks between the members of each group?
  3. (assuming students working alone) In addition to creating their own articles, some students have enhanced others’ pages with helpful edits. Do you award extra credit to these students, or penalise those who had their pages enhanced?
  4. As a super-administrator of the wiki, would you comment on or edit pages during the assessment period?
  5. What privacy settings would you use? Would wikis be visible to other students (or a wider audience) during their creation or after their completion?