Teachers and Students as Publishers
October 9, 2006
There’s a great post over at Technology & Learning's TechLearning Blog http://www.techlearning.com/blog/main/.
Jeff Utecht discusses the popularity of Myspace and YouTube among students associating it with their ability to create and manage their own content. Take a look at this link. One of my big pushes as an educator is to motivate my students to create excellent work and to also share and publish that work with a greater community, whether that community is a group of peers within a classroom, the entire class, the department, the school, or even the world.
I have always found it important that students are creating work not just for me to see in order to get feedback but for them to also have the opportunity to hear from other people and learn from the greater community.
My students take a lot of pride in the work that they create knowing that they will be publishing it to a bigger audience and that the work has value to others beyond the class.