Weblogg-ed Vol.2: Using Weblogs in Education
Posted 09/03/2003 under
education •
Will Richardson uses weblogs in his classroom and here he is making some comments relevant to both his, and his students experience with blogging as an education tool…
Web logs aren’t without issues. For one, many of my students were disatisfied with the absence of a grade on the assignments they posted. (They would get that if I collected, read, and handed back their work on paper.) I’ve struggled with this issue a bit, and we talked about it in class. Grades are such a touchy issue to so many of my kids that I’m not comfortable including the assessment with the feedback I post online. (And this, actually, is another issue. That little discuss link at the end of every post carries an expectation that I will give feedback or reply to every post. That’s just not realistic.) Some of them suggested posting just a letter grade. Others suggested weekly updates. I’m still mulling over this issue.
