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Gardner: I feel a successful blog must appeal to all students intelligences. The page must include variety in a quest to engage all students. For example visual learners will benefit from features such as pictures, those students with musical intelligences will enjoy the incorporation of my sound file and those problem solving students will thrive with the challenge of an online game. The use of a graphic organmiser and written information adds to the wide spectrum that this blog can appeal to. Above are some of the features that students can use.

Vygotskys: There is no doubt that Vygotskys ideas have had a strong effect on education, serving as a basis for educational approaches in which children are tutored or coached by more knowledgeable mentors. I know personally that I have learnt alot of skills by working with teachers, my parents and also my friends.Vygotskys theory successfully shows the benefits of social interactions as a means of learning. Vygotsky's emphasise on peer learning mirrors one of the main benefits of a blog. The students are connected online and have the opportunity to help, guide and critisise each other in a bid to futher each others learning.
Bloom: In 1956, Benjamin Bloom headed a group of educational psychologists who developed a classification of levels of intellectual behavior important in learning. Bloom found that over 95 % of the test questions students encounter require them to think only at the lowest possible level...the recall of information.
Bloom identified six levels within the cognitive domain, from the simple recall or recognition of facts, as the lowest level, through increasingly more complex and abstract mental levels, to the highest order which is classified as evaluation. Here are the six question categories supplied by Bloom
KNOWLEDGE
Who, what, when, where, how ...? (My blog through it's video provides a base for questions such as describe whatargument is being presented in the video clip
COMPREHENSION
describing in one's own words (My picture may lead to a question that asks the student to describe in their owbn words what is occurring in the picture)
APPLICATION
problem solving; (My game)
ANALYSIS
Outline/diagram... (My graphic organiser can be linked to questions asking the student to analise the content in the graph)
EVALUATION



Bruner- constuctivist theory:
A major theme in bruners findings is that learning is an active process in which the learner constructs new ideas or concepts based upon current/past knowledge. he says the learner constructs hypothesis and makes decisions relying on a cognitive structure to do so. A cognitive structure (i.e schema, mental models) provide meaning and organisation to experiences and allows the individual to synthesise the information given.
Blogs are successful in providing the scaffold for students to take on the constructivist style of learning. The information given enables students to construct their own personal schemas. For example the graphic organiser provides the framework for the student to come up with his/her own understanding of what is being presented. The video clip touches on past knowledge that they have e.g the 5 food groups and at the same time presents new information that becomes dissected by the students.
What do you think about...? (the audio clip perhaps)

Question 3

Question 3

There are many benefits of online learning! here are the most important for me:

- You can study at your own pace, you can study at midnight…If a student is busy with sporting commitments he/she can complete the work when it suits them. As we know not all students learn at the same pace./ Saving things on a computer allows students the opportunity to chip away at work at a pace they are comfortable with.

- Every student has a unique learning style. Some students are visual learners, some
learn better when they "learn by doing." Web-based learning environments permit the
instructor to build one course, yet implement a variety of resources, so students can
utilize materials in whichever way works best for them.
For example: Instructors can use Blackboard's Course Documents and Course
Information areas to post all sorts of support documents for students, including
handouts, audio clips, readings, and lecture notes. If this
information is available to the students, they can access content and review it at a selfdetermined pace. So in a nut shell online learning helps cater for multyiple intelligences.

- The time saving elements introduced by web-based education tools like Blackboard
apply to both the instructor and the student. Students benefit because they have
immediate access to course materials at any location. They do not have to spend time
walking across campus to the instructor’s office or searching for a reading in the library.
Instructors can minimize time spent in office hours, and address student concerns
online instead. Therefore online learning provides a time efficent alternative.

- Through operations such as blackboard student progress can be monitored closely. Online exams and ongoing topic tests gives the teacher the power to keep students on task. Also with online learning the teacher has the opportunity to make assessments more inviting to the styudents. Such as the students may have to complete a review on a show or clip that can be accessed via the internet at a particular time. This not only gives the student responsibility and power but also creatres excitement among students as they embark on fun home assignments.

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I feel pictures help add character to a blog. They help the person who's viewing the blog put names to faces..;

Movies and short clips help give meaning through actors and real life people. Putting a face to words is successful in creating a sense of realism.


Graphic organisers help lead to the student taking on deeper learning as they attempt to dissect and understand the information given. They are also successful in catering for another learning intelligence.

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