Comments on: Position Paper: Web 2.0 – Is this a credible and meaningful constructivist way of learning or are we just throwing our students on the “blogwagon or bandwiki”? http://chankish.edublogs.org/2008/07/01/position-paper-web-20-%e2%80%93-is-this-a-credible-and-meaningful-constructivist-way-of-learning-or-are-we-just-throwing-our-students-on-the-%e2%80%9cblogwagon-or-bandwiki%e2%80%9d/ My Tlite adventure continues... Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:18:09 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: grantmiller http://chankish.edublogs.org/2008/07/01/position-paper-web-20-%e2%80%93-is-this-a-credible-and-meaningful-constructivist-way-of-learning-or-are-we-just-throwing-our-students-on-the-%e2%80%9cblogwagon-or-bandwiki%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-5 grantmiller Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:18:09 +0000 http://chankish.edublogs.org/?p=6#comment-5 Chan, what a wonderful research paper! I can relate to what you are saying as I am attempting to deal with these issues and also the one that I have addressed on plagiarism. We tend to think that students will readily adapt to new technology, but in general, will they? Probably only if they see the need that is relevant to them. When my students used the blog on my Moodle at Roberts, they used it to post pictures of their favourite skateboarder (with his shirt off - making me the censor bad boy for taking it off - the blog entry, not my shirt!!!), silly pictures or spaming multiple pictures of 500 animated gifs of a spinning soccer ball... Maybe with more directed teaching from me next year, there will be a change! Well done for jumping on the bandwiki and blogwagon! Your partner in learning in the rozitisgroupies! Chan, what a wonderful research paper! I can relate to what you are saying as I am attempting to deal with these issues and also the one that I have addressed on plagiarism.

We tend to think that students will readily adapt to new technology, but in general, will they? Probably only if they see the need that is relevant to them. When my students used the blog on my Moodle at Roberts, they used it to post pictures of their favourite skateboarder (with his shirt off – making me the censor bad boy for taking it off – the blog entry, not my shirt!!!), silly pictures or spaming multiple pictures of 500 animated gifs of a spinning soccer ball… Maybe with more directed teaching from me next year, there will be a change!

Well done for jumping on the bandwiki and blogwagon!

Your partner in learning in the rozitisgroupies!

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