Classroom Blogging
This is a short digital story I found about the pros and cons of blogging in the classroom. I was unable to embed the video, but you can find the video
here.
Three traits were chosen from Jason Ohler’s
rubric to
use in order to critique this story:
1. Story
2. Research
3. Flow,
Organization and Pacing
1. Story- How well did the story work?
I believe this short story did work. It covered a lot of information in a short
amount of time. It is a relevant topic (despite being created in 2009) and I think will become even more relevant in the upcoming years as blogging
becomes even bigger. Blogging in the classroom is a great way to address digital citizenship (as she briefly mentions) while teaching kids how to type, navigate the internet, etc.
Score: 9/10
2. Research- How well was the story researched?
I am split 50/50 on this one. The author did have facts and statistics about
blogging in general, but she didn’t listed them in the credits (not a huge deal
but would be nice to see). She also did
not have facts or stats about blogging in the classroom specifically. I liked her pros and cons about blogging but again, did she come up with them on her own or did they come
from somewhere else? More information here would have been nice.
Score: 7/10
3. Flow, Organization and Pacing
I wasn’t thrilled about the organization of this story. I felt it jumped back and forth too much
between pros and cons; I would have like to see it organized all pros, then all
cons. This effected the flow of the
video as well. Her pacing was also a
little fast and I had to watch the video a few times to get it all (maybe there
was a time constraint?).
Score: 7/10
Overall Score: 23/30
Other comments: I
think I was a little hard on this storyteller, but I did like the content. While I don't agree with all her pros being
pros and cons being cons (I don’t think kids being slow typers is a problem, I think it is great practice no matter how long it
takes), they were good thoughts and something to think about.
