Worth 64% of your grade (8% for each of the 8 required blog posts)

Your blog and other social media will play an important role in the learning for this course and will act as a communication tool between you and your instructor, as well as other course participants, and the open learning community.

Blog Writing:

Near the end of class time, you will be given time to reflect on the articles/resources/websites provided by your instructor, and guests to compose a well-reasoned blog post response to the class topics. Care should be taken to:

  1. Include a concise summary of the technologies, teaching methods, or topics you are reflecting on or commenting on.
  2. Employ a multimedia strategy for your post by using text and one or more other media to enrich your post and help make it more engaging (e.g., screencast, podcast, video, sketchnote, image, infographics, or other formats).
  3. Your post demonstrates a critical reflection on the technologies, or teaching methods, including (but not limited to): possible benefits & drawbacks (especially for language revitalization), age appropriateness, possible or actual privacy & security issues, and possible equity issues.
  4. Utilize social writing strategies such as hyperlinks to blog posts (e.g., trackbacks) or to articles/resources consulted, including web pages, images, videos, etc.
  5. Use the WordPress category “topic-reflections” for your post.
  6. Copy and paste your blog post’s public web address to the associated topic assignment in BrightSpace.

Allowed Uses of Generative AI:

Topics 1-3: You are NOT ALLOWED to use any Generative AI tools for any of your topic reflections (see the course Generative AI policy for more details)

Topics 4-9: You ARE ALLOWED to use Generative AI tools for Idea Generation, and blog post structuring (see the course Generative AI policy for more details)

Learning Pod:

  • You will work together with a group of three classmates to help one another with the learning process.
  • Near the end of each class, you will be given time to take turns showcasing your blog progress, where one learner shares their work to date and the other two provide peer assessment and review and comment.
  • You are welcome to invite any IED 336 alumnus, practicing teachers, or other educational stakeholders to comment on your blog.