EDUCATIONAL BLOGGING TO PROMOTE WRITING SKILLS IN THE CHINESE LANGUAGE

School: Anderson Secondary School

Speaker: Mr Kam Yong Chuan （甘永川）

Duration: 20 minutes

Participants: 7/20

Objective: to leverage on blogging as a tool to engage students (Higher Chinese Language of 23 in an experimental class) in knowledge sharing, reflection and debate.

Pedagogy: Cooperative Learning

• Students are given cooperative learning activities that require them to relay research findings, ideas, or suggestions.

Portal: An educational blog site named www.21classes.com

• Features of Portal:

(1) FOC for 20 accounts (of 1mb space)

(2) Chargeable at US$8.90 per month for each account

(3) Facilitator (teacher) is able to moderate every new entry posted by student before it is published.

(4) It contains powerful tools to enable scaffolded learning or mentoring to occur.

Recommendation & Consideration:

1. Could further explore the possibilities of deploying this educational blog as it is specially designed for educators. With appropriate teacher intervention at various stages, the teacher is able to scale up and guide the degree of complexity of the discussion.
2. Need to further deliberate on the expenses required if we are to equip EACH student of 200 in Sec 1 (2010) with an account.

研讨会心语：

当主流学校都在积极进行科技教学的当儿，新科技中学又当如何超越现状，引领未来？这是一份乘风破浪的艰巨事业，“新科拓荒旗舰队”因未来而存在！