One resourceful school has harnessed blogging to enhance student-teacher communication, writes Wendy Wong
Despite controversy over the blogging habits of youngsters, a school has demonstrated that a web log can be used as analternative communication channel between teachers and students. The“Teachers’Blog”is a section on the website of Ju Ching Chu Secondary School (Tuen Mun) (裘锦秋中学 (屯门)), where the school’s principal and teachers share with students their writing on different topics regularly. Being popular among both teachers and students, it has already had a cumulative (累计的) hit rate of 30000 since its establishment six months ago. “In the past, students submitted their journals every week and teachers would give them feedback. With the‘Teachers’Blog’, the positions have been swapped (交换). Students can leave comments on the blog,”said Mr. Lau Chi-Ken (刘志勤), the school’s vice principal. “It encourages two-way communi cation and help students to develop a sense of belonging to the school.” Smoother interaction WONG Wai-chung said he had“discovered another side of the teachers”after reading their personal stories Lo Hok-him (卢学谦), a blogger himself, said he would write down his thoughts on his own personal blog when inspired by the thoughts shared by the teachers. They are two of the most frequent visitors to the site. The teachers are happy to have successfully reached out to the students. Chinese teacher Miss Chan Sze-kai (陈思佳) said:“the advantage of interacting with students using web-logs is that it isn’t a one-way teaching method. Besides, it’s also better than taking a didactic (教训的) approach to moral education because teachers can act as role models by sharing with students these ordinary daily happening that should be shared by all in life. All these can’t be done easily in the classroom.＂ Chosen as a “Centre of Excellence＂(资讯科技教育卓越中心) by the Education Bureau, the school had been thinking of ways to harness information technology in education. Mr. Lau said:“We are aware of the controversy (争议) in the education sector about youngsters’meaningless rants online. But we also believe the web log is a useful tool. It just depends on whether the users use it correctly.＂ Source: The Standard (Student), E03, 2 October, 2007 |
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