A4 Refereed article in a conference publication

Educational blogging as a tool supporting the teachers' TPACK competencies in crafts




AuthorsPirttimaa M, Rönkkö M-L, Grönman S, Aerila J-A

EditorsJan Herrington, Jarmo Viteli & Marianna Leikomaa

Conference nameWorld Conference on Educational Media and Technology

Publication year2014

Book title Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2014

First page 1655

Last page1663

Number of pages9

ISBN978-1-939797-08-7


Abstract

This study presents a case study about using a blog as a tool supporting and reflecting teachers practice concerning the development of technological, pedagogical, and content knowledge (TPACK) of teacher in-service course participants. The participating teachers were studying the contents of Finnish crafts for one and a half years between the August 2012 and December 2013. The challenge related to the in-service education is the paucity and shortness of intensity days during the educational periods. The personal blogs served a media for the course participants to support, reflect, and share their work and learning. According to the study, using educational blogging becomes more meaningful and more target-orientated during habituation of using the blog. Blogging proved to be a useful method for describing craft processes, monitoring the processes of others, and generating ideas for craft products.




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