My Edublog
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This is an educational journey within e-learning. I am excited but once again daunted by the steep learning curve I will undergo. This personal learning space creates numerous opportunities for risk-taking in learning, challenging my personal teaching philosophies and endeavouring to persevere and make new discoveries. Edublogs and blogging in general is are a diverse, personal, interactive and engaging way of recording thoughts and discoveries as part of my educational journey.
The founder of Edublogs is James Farmer who was previously a teacher, Lecturer in Education Design at Deakin University and Online Community Editor of The Age. Edublogs primarily host “hundreds of thousands of blogs for teacher, students, researchers, professors, librarians, administrators and anyone and everyone else involved in education” (Edublogs, 2008). The advantage of edublogs is that they are free, without advertising and come with 100MB free upload space. Additionally Edublogs offer over ninety themes for webpage design. It is easy to embed videos, podcasts, images and other multimedia particularly with the automatic imbedding devices at YouTube and Google Video. On Edublog you can also create static pages which are what lends them to e-portfolios.
Below are a couple of quotations from people who have used Edublogs:
This is one of the best professional development tools available. Teachers can quickly get set up and be online in a matter of minutes. We can then spend time on the important stuff like communication and collaboration. Thank you for providing such a useful tool!
Edublogs is a tremendous resource for the worldwide community of educators. I work as an assistive technology consultant in K-12 schools on Vancouver Island. I’ve used edublogs since May of 2006 to highlight free educational software and online resources.The flexible and versatile edublogs platform has served me very well. Useful new features are added regularly, so edublogs is continuously evolving and improving. And edublogs really does get around. In the first six months after installing Google Analytics, my blog had visits from over 100 countries!
In summary this Edublogs is an online site for developing a “personal learning space”. Throughout the creation of my Edublog I attempt to:
1. Voice my opinions and views relating to children’s creative use of learning technologies to support their active learning across the curriculum.
2. Record thoughts informed by literature and commentary.
3. Interact with a community of learners as part of a blogosphere.
4. Evaluate edublogs and the blogging medium as a potential teaching tool for primary education.
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