Tools/Enquiry Blogger

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
Link	http://learningemergence.net/tools/enquiryblogger/