Best of the Fischbowl

I reviewed the "best" blog on Fischbowl for the month of August. It is about personal learning networks that can be created and maintained by students. It is developed using technology in which students will subscribe to feeds. The staff or teachers introduce the concept by having all the students subscribe to the same feeds at first, "seed feeds". This allows the students to have the class feed as an example before they are sent out to find their own school-appropriate feeds to stay current with. They will read the feeds that they selected every week and are given at least two presentation assignments throughout each semester, in which they present an interesting article to class. The class then can go the student's personal blog and comment on the article presented.

There are several great aspects to this idea! First, the students are thinking critically and reflecting on interesting articles and current events. Secondly, they are interacting and exchanging ideas. Hence, the students are creating and maintaining a Personal learning network!