Dit paper beschrijft hoe weblogs in het onderwijs gebruikt kunnen worden, geeft een overzicht van overige literatuur op dit gebied en beschrijft een voorbeeld uit de praktijk.
Stukken uit deze publicatie die interessant zijn voor de dissertatie:
“The key to the popularity of blogs, it seems, is the scope for interactivity. While, initially, a blog may be treated by its maintainer as little more than a 'news space', it is not uncommon, over a period of time, for a distinctive style to emerge, in the course of writing entries and responding to feedback, that reflects the personal character of the blog's creator. Significantly, rather than alienate a readership by exposing one's personal traits and idiosyncrasies, this adds to the very popularity of a blog. As Jacobs explains, this is part and parcel of the theatre of interpersonal communication, played out to an undefined, virtually infinite public space. Indeed, this 'exhibitionistic behaviour is encouraged, supported and even sought' by the 'cyber-voyeurs' of this theatre; viz. 'the readers of blogs, who post comments in reply to entries, often positively reinforcing the opinions of the blogger, but sometimes disagreeing on points of philosophy, politics or social comment, and occasionally 'flaming' the blogger for opinions expressed'”
Het bovenstaande stukje geeft aan dat het interactieve apect en het persoonlijke aspect van een weblog de succesfactoren van dit middel zijn. Deze opmerking sluit aan bij de reden waarom mobile learning volgens de literatuur succesvol zou moeten zijn: het persoonlijke, en de interactie. In mijn onderzoek, heb ik me minder op de sociale interactiekant van moblogging gericht, terwijl ook dit stukje aangeeft dat dit een sterk aspect is.
“Furthermore, the nature of blogging engines allows for the creation of a legitimate warehousing of captured knowledge, and archiving for later retrieval (Bausch, Haughey & Hourihan, 2002). As a knowledge management tool, blogs provide the potential for relatively undifferentiated articles of information passing through an organisation to be contextualised in a manner that adds value, thus generating 'knowledge' from mere 'information'. Comments systems and democratic posting privileges allow employees in an organisation to give voice to ideas and provide feedback on procedures in a manner not previously possible in a distributed office environment. Further, personalised responses to news and messages are a simple means of developing an understanding of the collective knowledge of an organisation and a means of broadening that knowledge, thus creating 'intelligence' from 'knowledge' (see Pór & Molloy 2000). Thus, in a business context, blogs provide a forum for learning. It logically follows therefore, that the experience of collective knowledge generation can and should be applied to traditional educational environments.”
Bovenstaand stukje geeft in mijn ogen extra argumenten waarom het ook goed is dat dissertaties aals weblogs worden geschreven :-)
“One article that reflects a little more deeply on the potential of the blog as a tool for the promotion of deeper learning on a variety fronts is that produced by Oravec (2002). In addition to commenting on the advantages of using a tool that serves as an online journal encouraging personal reflection, and as a means of encouraging collaboration through the sharing of links to resources and up to date information, Oravec (2002, p. 618) observes that the blog has many dimensions that are suited to students' 'unique voices', empowering them, and encouraging them to become more critically analytical in their thinking. The reason, simply, is that in order to develop and sustain a clear and confident voice of one's own, one has to carefully formulate and stand by one's opinions. Writing a blog assists here because it forces a student to confront their own opinions and contemplate how their views might be interpreted and reflected upon by others (Mortensen & Walker, 2002, cited in Lamshed, Berry & Armstrong, 2002).”
Bovenstaande geeft een aantal literatuurbronnen met betrekking tot weblogs as een tool voor reflectie.
Download from: http://ascilite.org.au/ajet/ajet20/williams.html
1 comment:
yes, these reflections are relevant for your dissertation, you might think of using them as small audiotaped footnotes at spots within your dissertation texts that you think are relevant?
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