B4EE Unit 2, Session 2 planning template Identifying instructional scaffolds.

. Use this template as a basis to guide you through addressing providing instructional scaffolds in your student blogging project. Download and save this template for your own reference.

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Writing

How will you support your students in understanding what a blog is and how it is different from other forms of writing?

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Blog components

How will you support your students in understanding of the various components of a blog (title, body, keywords/tags, etc)? How will you equip them in learning basic blogging vocabulary? Notes:

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Images

How will you support your students in creating images to upload to their blogs and how to upload them?

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Audio

How will you support your students in creating audio to upload to their blogs and how to upload audio files?

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Video

How will you support your students in creating videos to upload to their blogs and how to upload video files?

This resource was created by University College Falmouth and released as an open educational resource through the Blogging for Educational Environments (B4EE) project. The B4EE project is funded by University College Falmouth. 2012 University College Falmouth

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Licence. When repurposing this resource please acknowledge University College Falmouth and the B4EE project.

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Hyperlinks

How will you support your students in adding hyperlinks within their blog posts?

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Peer comments

How will you support your students practice of peer critiquing through their use of blog comments?

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Blog layout / theme

How will you support your students in developing a visual identity / theme / layout for their blog?

This resource was created by University College Falmouth and released as an open educational resource through the Blogging for Educational Environments (B4EE) project. The B4EE project is funded by University College Falmouth. 2012 University College Falmouth

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Prior knowledge

How will you support activate students prior knowledge and/or expertise? Will you ask students to contribute their own experiences that relate to the subject at hand? Notes:

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Task modelling

How will you model the blogging activity for the students before they are asked to complete the same or similar activity?

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Creating sub-tasks

How will you break the overall assignment into individual tasks/components?

This resource was created by University College Falmouth and released as an open educational resource through the Blogging for Educational Environments (B4EE) project. The B4EE project is funded by University College Falmouth. 2012 University College Falmouth

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Student motivation

How will you break keep the students motivated to persist with the project/assignment? How will you facilitate student engagement and participation? Notes:

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Differing abilities

How will you address differing student abilities within the project/assignment? These could be variances in writing abilities, technical abilities, team working abilities, etc? Notes:

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Student strategies

How will you suggest possible strategies for the students to use during independent practice?

This resource was created by University College Falmouth and released as an open educational resource through the Blogging for Educational Environments (B4EE) project. The B4EE project is funded by University College Falmouth. 2012 University College Falmouth

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Licence. When repurposing this resource please acknowledge University College Falmouth and the B4EE project.