In a previous Prof. Hacker post, Jason Jones linked to Hillary Miller’s “Lessons from a First-Time Course Blogger”, which contains great advice such as making sure not to forget about the blog and not ...

This fall I decided to have my IEP (individualized education plan) students create in-class personal blogs. For my students, having accommodations to support their learning is imperative. Having a ...

Faculty and students at Pennsylvania State University are embracing blogs as teaching and learning tools. The university's Teaching and Learning with Technology organization first launched its Sites ...

Most people share a similar memory from their days in school: writing reflections in a special notebook doled out at the beginning of the year. Teachers were likely the only ones who read what was ...

Avoiding these pitfalls will help students get the full benefits of online journaling. NO ONE NEEDS TO SELL BROCK DUBBELSon the use of blogging as a part of curriculum. Dubbels, anengineering teacher ...

I am a 5th and 8th-grade science teacher and at the start of the 2013 school year, I wondered if I could get my students to become productive scientific writers. To find out, I introduced my students ...

Back when I was a nervous, first-time instructor, my colleagues and I decided to include a multi-class blog in our First Year Comp classrooms. We figured this would be a good way to keep tabs on each ...

Not just the tech-savvy take to the blogs at Georgetown. Required blogging has made its way into a number of classes in recent years, as professors find greater value in establishing a discussion ...

At Jenny Dowling's modern languages class at Edinburgh's Gracemount High School, a group of students are using the must-have technology - the iPod - to record and practise speaking assessments and to ...

Writing in classrooms seems to me to have two wildly different, conflicting purposes: a limited, traditional and strict purpose - because exams, like many decent jobs, will be about written skill; and ...