Best Information for Health Educators

Here are general ideas from the article eLearn: Best Practices

• Roughly a third of the coursework marks come from the blog.
• First, set up a class blog (usually at Xanga). Then, each student in the class is required to create his or her own blog, also on Xanga.
• Next, the owner of the class blog “subscribe” to all the student blogs—so that what they are all writing can be seen and they can also, through the class blog, see each other’s entries
• Each student is required to write four to eight entries (the exact number depends on the class) of at least 200 words during the course of the semester.
• In each entry, they should reflect on their learning in the class and explain how this learning can be applied to their organizational context (all students study part time, working full time during the day).

In reality, most students write many more entries than the minimum required.
They also read each other’s entries, and comment on them, as do I as the instructor.

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