TEACHSOC: Re: Fw: TEACHSOC: Class blogs

[Del Thomas Ph. D.]

Hi, I would suggest the avoidance of these tools for security reasons. .  For example, I never close the office door during a meeting. You do not want all of that personal stuff out there. We should not put anything on the web that we would not want to be on the front page of the Sunday Times.    There are instructional issues as well.  The classroom is warm business casual with students working in groups.  It is their task to make the sociology links.  There are more basic matters as well. Many students will have not had courses in calculus or studio arts which will allow them to see the same thing from multiple different perspectives.  For example, Henry David Thoreau was visited in jail by friend R W Emerson  who asked what are you doing in there.... he responded Ralph what are you doing out there? For example, regarding upward mobility students can compare wealth and education with parents and grand parents in the context of history and other issues.  Perhaps service is the new agriculture.  To what extent have slavery and slave wages changed...... This can be done in the context that Indonesia a poor place has more wealth than the roman empire. Del Sarah Murray wrote: ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sarah Murray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jay Livingston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 8:50 AM Subject: Re: TEACHSOC: Class blogs OOPS!In my last post I meant the Blackboard discussions are graded subjectively, balanced by objective grades of exams. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jay Livingston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Teaching Sociology" <teachsoc@googlegroups.com> Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 8:24 AM Subject: TEACHSOC: Class blogs A few weeks ago, Andi Stepnick posted something about having students post journal entries to WebCT. I'm curious as to how this works because I was thinking of doing something similar. Many years ago, back in the pre-Internet dark ages, I had students keep journals. I required two entries each week. In each journal entry, students were to try to link an idea from the course to something specific from their first-hand experience. It worked well with some students, but having to read and comment on so much handwritten material was burdensome. So I was thinking of having students do something similar now but on Blackboard -- a sort of collective blog. Each student could see what others were posting, and they could make comments. Perhaps discussions would get started. I wonder if others have experience with class blogs, and how anyone thinks something like this would work, what problems might arise, how it would be graded, etc. Any suggestions? Jay Livingston Montclair State University --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Teaching Sociology" group. To post to this group, send email to teachsoc@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/teachsoc -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---