{"id":579,"date":"2015-11-27T14:06:24","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T14:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/socmedhe\/?page_id=579"},"modified":"2015-12-14T12:21:33","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T12:21:33","slug":"using-blogs-to-engage-students-in-their-subject-outside-of-formal-teaching-spaces","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/socmedhe\/using-blogs-to-engage-students-in-their-subject-outside-of-formal-teaching-spaces\/","title":{"rendered":"Using blogs to engage students in their subject outside of formal teaching spaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Tom Bassindale<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a class=\"ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WeAreForensic\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc\">@<span class=\"u-linkComplex-target\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc\">WeAreForensic<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><strong>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Sheffield Hallam University<\/h2>\n<p>This talk will investigate how effective blogging can be at extending the classroom and encouraging students to explore additional sources of information.<\/p>\n<p>I started blogging in 2012, mainly to highlight my thoughts on professional issues within forensic science. \u00a0I now also blog as part of my teaching on the Forensic Science courses at SHU. I write blogs to support my lecture material in various ways; articles are a mix of current issues of importance and expansion of lecture notes.\u00a0 Forensic science is a subject rich with case studies so I have been using these cases to illustrate key concepts.<\/p>\n<p>Through reading the blogs, and the comments on many, students are exposed to a wide network of specialists.\u00a0 Through my personal network, particularly developed through Twitter, I get comments from course leaders at other Universities, medics, anti-doping scientists, forensic experts and assorted other interested parties.\u00a0 These comments are often very useful in further expanding understanding.<\/p>\n<p>I link the students to these blog posts in various ways, in lecture notes and other tools. I have embedded a Pinterest board on each of my module sites on Blackboard and also a Twitter feed.\u00a0 I include the link (either as a short link or QR code) in the lecture notes when appropriate. I will often start a session the following week with the students discussing the blog.<\/p>\n<p>This semester I have a fairly small cohort in each module (&lt;25) and I will capture the number of links being followed by the students and gain some feedback from them on how they feel this helps to support their learning. I have been tracking the numbers of views the past few years to examine the readership. I will report these results in this talk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Bassindale\u00a0@WeAreForensic\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Sheffield Hallam University This talk will investigate how effective blogging can be at extending the classroom and encouraging students to explore additional sources of information. I started blogging in 2012, mainly to highlight my thoughts on professional issues within forensic science. \u00a0I now also blog as part of my teaching on the Forensic Science&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1333,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-579","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P6r5Qk-9l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/socmedhe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/socmedhe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/socmedhe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/socmedhe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/socmedhe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":800,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/socmedhe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/579\/revisions\/800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/socmedhe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}