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|title=Enquiry Blogger
|title=Get students to categorise their blogs
|tagline=Supporting enquiry, through blogging
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|description= Consider a scenario where a class works on their individual {{tag|blog}}s but also use this tool to categorise their posts. Using it they way express (say) how they are doing. The resulting blog displays a diagram to show how many times each category has been used by learners. Colours show which categories are most popular and a click takes the user to those posts. This is a set of plugins for Wordpress. Developed by the Open University Knowledge Media Institute, and University of Bristol’s Centre for Systems Learning & Leadership. Another plugin in this set will generate blogs for a whole cohort. EnquiryBlogger is at [http://learningemergence.net/tools/enquiryblogger/ http://learningemergence.net/tools/enquiryblogger/]
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|specs=Web tool to run as a {{tag|WordPress}} {{plugin}}
|specs=Web tool that runs as a {{plugin}} within the {{tooltag|WordPress}} blogging platform
|Link=http://learningemergence.net/tools/enquiryblogger/
|Link=http://learningemergence.net/tools/enquiryblogger/
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[[File:Enquiryblogger2.png|border|340x340px| |© Preview snapshot of a presentation explaining the rationale for Enquiry Blogger]]  [[File:Enquiryblogger0.png|border|340x340px| |© Preview snapshot of diagrams that show the popularity of categories used by students]]

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Get students to categorise their blogs - Enquiry Blogger

Tool Description Consider a scenario where a class works on their individual blogs(tool) but also use this tool to categorise their posts. Using it they may express how they are doing. The resulting blog displays a diagram to show how many times each category has been used by learners. Colours show which categories are most popular and a click takes the user to those posts. This is a set of plugin tools that can be added to Wordpress. Developed by the Open University Knowledge Media Institute, and University of Bristol’s Centre for Systems Learning & Leadership. Another plugin in this set will generate blogs for a whole cohort. EnquiryBlogger is at http://learningemergence.net/tools/enquiryblogger/ (edit)

Teaching Approach. Enquiry blogger is a set of plugins for the blogging(tool) platform WordPress. Users are asked to tag their posts on an inquiry(ta) project, and these tags can be analysed and visualised(ta) to support student progress through their project. (edit)

Tool details
Title Get students to categorise their blogs
Topic [[Topics/Blogs|Blogs]]
Licence / Cost / Platform

Web tool that runs as a Template:Plugin within the WordPress(tool) blogging platform

Subject / Categories ToolInfo, Blogs, Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls
Teaching Ideas / Links
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© Preview snapshot of a presentation explaining the rationale for Enquiry Blogger © Preview snapshot of diagrams that show the popularity of categories used by students