Affordances analysis
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The document analyzes the technical features and pedagogical affordances of blogging technology. It lists features such as uploading multimedia, email notifications, public/private access settings, commenting functions, and group authorship. Examples are then given of how these features enable various pedagogical strategies, such as maintaining reflective journals, documenting class projects, facilitating communication between schools, and archiving readings. The blogging platform allows for collaborative knowledge-building through networking and sharing content globally.
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Affordances analysis
- 1. Table 1: Technical features, affordances and pedagogy analysis of technology Features of the technology Affordances (activities and practice) Affordances (examples of pedagogy and designs) Upload or embed text, photos, videos and more Learning material can be supplemented by visual and auditory resources enabling interaction with all types of learners. Learners can create a series of journal entries on set topics with stimulus visuals and audio uploaded or embedded to the post. Learners can record experiences from excursions through uploading of written, picture, video and audio content. Teachers can create a learning community with students and parents through a class blog. Teachers can update learners and parents on late changes to class activities, learning or assessment. Students can maintain individual blogs as a reflection on current learning content area. Students create a poetry community with a partner school across the globe to post their own poetic literature influenced by their societal context. As part of an investigation into what is leadership students post on the blogs of successful leaders around the world asking simple questions from which the responses could be used in their own blog when discussing leadership. Students in a science class comment on each others blog post when discussing the results and conclusion from an experiment. Students form groups and are given a task to investigate further into the benefits of recycling. Each Email new posts to readers Community of teachers, learners and parents can receive immediate and up-to-date notifications. Readers can subscribe to updates on your blog and follow you Teachers and learners can manage their blog either making it private or public with the potential for a global audience Interact with readers through comments Formative feedback can be given to peer-to- peer by learners, from the teacher or from experts around the globe. Group blogging which allows any combination of administrative and author- only control A community of collaborative learners can curate thoughts and views. This can be administered by the teacher.
- 2. News feed of blogs which you can follow and subscribe to belonging to anyone in the world Network with other learners, teachers and experts to view, share and post collective knowledge individual author can add to their group blog which discusses their findings and opinions on recycling and better methods of disposal. Students as part of a pop culture unit must create a news feed of current iconic figures currently in pop culture. Students then are required to blog about their reading from this news feed. Students curate their collective knowledge in Year 9 through maintaining an archived blog allowing teachers to follow the series of readings related to specific study areas. Students create videos on moderating comments and the importance of internet safety and spam protection. The students then upload these videos onto their personal blog with a written synopsis on internet protection. Students investigate the power and purpose of social media as a tool for change where collective knowledge created and valued, when information is shared between stakeholders Archive past posts in your blog by date or category Teachers and learners can create and collate a series of readings for the learning of others Comment spam protection (moderate) Professional language can be taught and monitored by the teacher Social media integration (share your posts) Teachers, learners and parents can share collective knowledge with the views and search analytics allowing an attraction across a more wider and global audience