Teaching with Blogs
Orientation and Integration
Faculty-written Intros and Overviews
Identify Topics and Themes
Activate prior knowledge
Preview ideas that will come up
(Advance organizers)
Presentation
Lecture Notes
Slide Presentations
Audio/Video Recordings
Additional Material
Supplemental
Remedial
Application
Reactions to Prompts
(Images, Video clips, Short essays/posts)
Journaling
Critical Readings
Annotations
Glossary Writing
Short Biographies
Timelines
Genealogies, Family Trees
Interviewing
Placing in Context
Discussion
Playing “Tag” (with Lists)
Student-written Summaries – Peer review
Student-written SWOT (Strength-Weakness-Opportunity-Threat)
Crowd-sourcing
Indexing (Categories, Tags)