Analysis of Blogging Survey Conducted with Room One and Three Students
Our findings:
- Students know how to access a variety of web tools that are useful for blogging
- The majority of students find posting on their blog relatively easy
- There is a minority of students who associated blogging with learning and sharing this with people they know
- Some could identify how it has impacted on their learning by explainging how they have developed initiative and how they have learnt to access information with greater independence
- One student commented that blogging allowed him/her to get feedback and comments
- Two students found blogging easier than using pen and paper
- By far the greatest comment was that blogging has made them aware of a range of sites that they have accesses to.
All comments were positive towards using blogs however we felt that students need to be more aware of blogging for learning, not just for filling in time and making posts that are directed by the teacher.
We intend to work on:
- reinforcing the purpose for blogging at school
- getting students to comment on their peers' work
- getting parents to make regular comments on their child’s blog
- having a regular time for blogging
- ensuring that postings cover the 3 R’s
- using a range of tools for postings e.g voice instead of paper/pen
To do this we need to encourage the students to be more reflective by asking them questions about their learning and develop a criteria for making comments on blogs.
