In a previous Prof. Hacker post, Jason Jones linked to Hillary Miller’s “Lessons from a First-Time Course Blogger”, which contains great advice such as making sure not to forget about the blog and not ...

This fall I decided to have my IEP (individualized education plan) students create in-class personal blogs. For my students, having accommodations to support their learning is imperative. Having a ...

Faculty and students at Pennsylvania State University are embracing blogs as teaching and learning tools. The university's Teaching and Learning with Technology organization first launched its Sites ...

I am a 5th and 8th-grade science teacher and at the start of the 2013 school year, I wondered if I could get my students to become productive scientific writers. To find out, I introduced my students ...

Avoiding these pitfalls will help students get the full benefits of online journaling. NO ONE NEEDS TO SELL BROCK DUBBELSon the use of blogging as a part of curriculum. Dubbels, anengineering teacher ...

My ten-year-old daughter is on the autism spectrum. When we met for her annual review this year, one of her goals revolved around her learning how to extend her writing. I cringed. Last year, I’d ...

Back when I was a nervous, first-time instructor, my colleagues and I decided to include a multi-class blog in our First Year Comp classrooms. We figured this would be a good way to keep tabs on each ...

Not just the tech-savvy take to the blogs at Georgetown. Required blogging has made its way into a number of classes in recent years, as professors find greater value in establishing a discussion ...

At Jenny Dowling's modern languages class at Edinburgh's Gracemount High School, a group of students are using the must-have technology - the iPod - to record and practise speaking assessments and to ...

Writing in classrooms seems to me to have two wildly different, conflicting purposes: a limited, traditional and strict purpose - because exams, like many decent jobs, will be about written skill; and ...