Student Blogging in an Online Math Course

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Student Blogging in an Online Math Course

• Jodi Cotten
• SUNY Westchester Community College
• AMATYC Distance Learning Committee

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How this idea started

• Online journal.
• Journals were private.
• I learned a lot about my students and learning
  mathematics from reading these journals.
• I wanted my students to learn this from each
  other.

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First idea

• Online website www.blogger.com

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Blogger.com

• Good Easy to set up and use.
• Its the in thing to do.
• Bad Another website to log in and
• check for the student and instructor.
• Technical issues.

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Back to the journal

• Back to WebCT
• Opened up the journals to the entire class
• Added detail to the journal requirements.

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The Journal Details

• Your journal will include
• Week 1 Your personal math biography.
• Weeks 2 13 Journal entries from the list of
  topics given below.
• Week 14 Reflection on The Proof.
• Week 15 Last entry Reflection on the course.

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Journal Examples

• MATH 120 and MATH 120H

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Contact Information

• Jodi Cotten
• SUNY Westchester Community College
• Associate Professor of Mathematics
• 75 Grasslands Road
• Technology Building 119
• Valhalla, New York 10591
• 914-606-6786
• Jodi.Cotten_at_sunywcc.edu