tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19284854.post4779012261005476145..comments2023-10-28T07:36:11.619-06:00Comments on Choice Learning: michael hotrumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08026581638745789073noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19284854.post-80463523374769096532007-07-19T21:56:00.000-06:002007-07-19T21:56:00.000-06:00I think that this is a conversation that many educ...I think that this is a conversation that many educators will be nudging up against in future. I get something similar from the ictpd cluster teachers I work with when I try to entice them to work in our contract provided online environment - its clunky and they exhibit "grudging compliance" if they use it at all.<BR/><BR/>Konrad Glogowski has just <A HREF="http://www.teachandlearn.ca/blog/2007/07/19/21classes-and-personalized-spaces/" REL="nofollow">posted something</A> about student blogging using 21Classes that supports your thinking <BR/><BR/><I>The ability to create a virtual space that is uniquely one’s own turned out to be much more important than I had anticipated. It helped the students define themselves as individuals, not pupils who use a teacher-sanctioned tool to post work. When I compare student blogs from two years ago or from last year to the personalized blogs that the students created with 21Classes, I see a collection of individuals, not a classroom. I see evidence of personal engagement but no evidence of an institutional setting. The uniformity that the other platforms forced upon us was gone and what emerged was a creative and engaging mosaic.</I>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com