For me, collaboration through blogging would be a great addition my classes. Providing an informal environment for students to practice their writing skills and allowing students to collaborate on finding solutions to assignments are two of my favorite possibilities with blogging.
If students have freedom to write their own responses according to their opinions/ ideas, they'll be more motivated to add substance to their dialog. Also, it has been shown that students who must write to their peers in an academic setting try harder to provide a dialog that will impress their peers.
Everything the students write will be time stamped so setting deadlines and grading will be efficient and effective.
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Blog #7 Schoology- My favorite web tool.
I'm most impressed with Schoology because it offers a rich variety of built in course management tools that truly make it a Learning Management System. Our course (EDUC932) has led my first introduction to tools of this kind.
To have tests, quizzes ,and a drop box for homework all in one software package makes class management much more efficient. The potential for communication breakdown is lessened between the teacher and students.
The feature I really love is that I can see questions other students ask the teacher and benefit from reading the subsequent responses. The integration with Google docs provides options for signup sheets and time stamped submissions of assignments (so do the built in Schoology functions)
Being a free service is also a benefit.
There are other competing services available out there and I will check them out but for now, Schoology satisfies all the tasks I would like to 'automate'.
To have tests, quizzes ,and a drop box for homework all in one software package makes class management much more efficient. The potential for communication breakdown is lessened between the teacher and students.
The feature I really love is that I can see questions other students ask the teacher and benefit from reading the subsequent responses. The integration with Google docs provides options for signup sheets and time stamped submissions of assignments (so do the built in Schoology functions)
Being a free service is also a benefit.
There are other competing services available out there and I will check them out but for now, Schoology satisfies all the tasks I would like to 'automate'.
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