1. EXTENDING THE CLASSROOM ONLINE THROUGH BLOGGING Teaching the Net Generation: Curriculum, Pedagogy and the Challenge of 21 st Century Learning 10 to 11 September  Cebu City, Philippines MANUEL JAIME U. VINUYA 10 September 2008

2. Teaching the Net Generation: Curriculum, Pedagogy and the Challenge of 21 st Century Learning Teachers should always look for ways to integrate ICT in teaching “Can’t let the students in my classes go and end the school year without any ICT-based learning.” Students today should be exposed more to ICT and ICT integrated learning

3. Teaching the Net Generation: Curriculum, Pedagogy and the Challenge of 21 st Century Learning There are plethora of programs and tools for ICT integration in the schools… …which are easier, faster, and more accessible for both teachers and students.

4. Teaching the Net Generation: Curriculum, Pedagogy and the Challenge of 21 st Century Learning “Blogging” as a teaching tool? Blogging has become commonplace in the internet

5. Teaching the Net Generation: Curriculum, Pedagogy and the Challenge of 21 st Century Learning What is a BLOG? A blog is an abridgement of the term “web log”, which is a website, usually maintained by an individual, with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other materials such as graphics or video. It enables visitors to the site to share and post their comments to the posted discussions or to other visitors’ comments. interactive OWNER COMMENTOR BLOG COMMENTOR

6. Teaching the Net Generation: Curriculum, Pedagogy and the Challenge of 21 st Century Learning Objectives General objective: - extend the classroom in the cyberspace Specific objectives: 1. to encourage student participation in online discussions and collaborations 2. to serve as posting boards for assignments and activities, 3. to serve as bulletin of information and reminders, 4. to serve as class journal of activities, and 5. to serve as online publication of student works and achievements.

7. Teaching the Net Generation: Curriculum, Pedagogy and the Challenge of 21 st Century Learning www.research-one.blogspot.com - for my Research I subject for 2 nd year - 2 sections with a total of 69 students 2 blogs were created www.research-two.blogspot.com - for my Research II subject for 4 th year - 1 section with 39 students -Research I and Research II are add-on subjects of the Special Science Classes - ongoing and intended until the end of school year 2008-2009

8. Teaching the Net Generation: Curriculum, Pedagogy and the Challenge of 21 st Century Learning Diagram of the steps in implementing the blogging project Step 1: Creating the Blog Step 2: Student orientation Step 3: Teacher Posting Step 4: Student Comment Posting Step 5: Checking of Students’ Posts Step 6: Classroom synthesis

9. Teaching the Net Generation: Curriculum, Pedagogy and the Challenge of 21 st Century Learning - Created from www.blogger.com www.blogger.com – a free blog hosting website owned by Google - simple and easy to manage Step 1. Creation of the blog

10. Teaching the Net Generation: Curriculum, Pedagogy and the Challenge of 21 st Century Learning Requisite for building: a g-mail, an email account from Google

11. Teaching the Net Generation: Curriculum, Pedagogy and the Challenge of 21 st Century Learning Steps in creating the blog Sign in with g-mail e-mail address 3 easy steps in creating a blog

12. Teaching the Net Generation: Curriculum, Pedagogy and the Challenge of 21 st Century Learning Step 2. Students’ orientation - mechanics of using the blog in posting their comments, discussions, reactions, images, pictures and even videos - rules regarding the use of improper languages and correct grammar and these are also placed in the blog. - emphasized that the students’ discussions on the blog are included in the computation of their grade in class participation - cited some relevant DepEd provisions on the integration of ICT in education and made them understand that the blogs were made in accordance with the said provisions

13. Teaching the Net Generation: Curriculum, Pedagogy and the Challenge of 21 st Century Learning Step 3. Posting of teacher discussions The Blogger program is built in with commands and functions which are similar to creating a Microsoft Word document

14. Teaching the Net Generation: Curriculum, Pedagogy and the Challenge of 21 st Century Learning Snapshot of the first posted teacher discussion for the second year SSC

15. Teaching the Net Generation: Curriculum, Pedagogy and the Challenge of 21 st Century Learning Snapshot of the first posted teacher discussion for the fourth year SSC

16. Teaching the Net Generation: Curriculum, Pedagogy and the Challenge of 21 st Century Learning Step 4. Posting of comments (reactions or discussion) by the students. Click “comments” to post comment or discussion

17. Teaching the Net Generation: Curriculum, Pedagogy and the Challenge of 21 st Century Learning Comment posting window Writing panel

18. Teaching the Net Generation: Curriculum, Pedagogy and the Challenge of 21 st Century Learning Identity button

19. Teaching the Net Generation: Curriculum, Pedagogy and the Challenge of 21 st Century Learning Select “anonymous”

20. Teaching the Net Generation: Curriculum, Pedagogy and the Challenge of 21 st Century Learning Criteria R A T I N G Present (100%) Mostly Present (92%) Partly Present (85%) Absent (83%) ACCURATENESS OF IDEAS CORRECTNESS OF GRAMMAR *Grade: Total of the ratings divided by 2 Grade = Step 5. Checking of students’ discussions Rubric in checking the discussions of the students X X 96

21. Teaching the Net Generation: Curriculum, Pedagogy and the Challenge of 21 st Century Learning Step 6. Classroom synthesis After the posting period, an on-classroom synthesis of the students’ online discussions is conducted to summarize their ideas and formulate generalization.

22. Teaching the Net Generation: Curriculum, Pedagogy and the Challenge of 21 st Century Learning With this blogging activity a new and innovative way of learning students were very enthusiastic to blogging A “first” in Manaoag National High School

23. Teaching the Net Generation: Curriculum, Pedagogy and the Challenge of 21 st Century Learning Problems Encountered Students’ problems: Students have to spend for computer rentals at internet shops Unavailability of school computers with internet access since the school’s computer lab is not always available and ready for the students to use The students’ availability to go to the computer lab or shop to post their discussions Teacher’s problems: Interrupted internet access by the service provider Time consuming Increased electricity bill

24. Teaching the Net Generation: Curriculum, Pedagogy and the Challenge of 21 st Century Learning Recommendations 1)To find means of reducing the expenses of students 2)To find ways of maximizing the use of the school’s computer lab for the project 3)To introduce and encourage blogging as an instructional tool to other teachers

25. Teaching the Net Generation: Curriculum, Pedagogy and the Challenge of 21 st Century Learning With this blogging activity BLOG easy to build and manage resembles a classroom interactive, versatile and functional evidence of class participation viewed by parents No opposition to the project

26. Teaching the Net Generation: Curriculum, Pedagogy and the Challenge of 21 st Century Learning Consider the use of blogging as one of the regular activities in my classes Blogging in other countries is an integral part of classroom instruction

27. Teaching the Net Generation: Curriculum, Pedagogy and the Challenge of 21 st Century Learning