Reflection 3.1
This activity asks you to reflect on your learning about blogs. How could you use blogs in your teaching context? This blogging business has been a steep learning curve for me the last three weeks. For a person that does not even use Facebook, I have honestly struggled. The anxiousness that I have felt with public sharing, albeit only to our professional student and staff GDLT body, has been constant. But just as I will ask my students to 'stretch' themselves, I have pushed through my comfort zone and am feeling more and more confident with each reflection on this blog-o-mine. When I first set up this Weebly blog, apart from being totally absorbed in the pretty set up options, my first error was that I set up the first couple of pages as web format, not blog format. At the time I perceived this as a boo-boo, however now as I reflect back to my week one, I see it as unintentional discovery of the added function of weebly. It can be web page and blog! Which is fabulous for the class setting, where stand-alone pages regarding assessment content for example, can sit unchangeable. Then the blog pages can be commented on and added to. In my head, I see my year 10 Civics and Citizenship class doing a group blog (so each person is added as allowable contributor in weebly) on the topic of industrial relations in Australia. Where the blog space is about a workplace and each contributor has a different role: employer, employee, apprentice, apprenticeship centre, Fair Work Australia. And from here the students have to research and detail the rights and responsibilities of each role. From there the options are endless. Posing different scenarios, changing of roles etc. I would link this in to the ACARA year 10 curriculum guidelines: Citizenship, diversity and identityThe challenges to and ways of sustaining a resilient democracy and cohesive society (ACHCK094)
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