Using Blogs to Connect Across Cultures: A Reflection
Conference Tracks
Teaching Practices (Poster Only) – Analysis, synthesis, reflection, and discussion
Abstract
It is common knowledge that blogging can be a useful pedagogical tool. The opportunity to carefully craft messages is particularly salient when the discussion topic is sensitive in nature. This presentation reflects on instructor and student experiences with a blogging exercise that connected two groups of individuals from very different cultural backgrounds. It provides insight into instructor and student experiences using blogs to discuss scenarios that highlighted cultural similarities and differences in the management of conflict at work. The exercise prompted learning moments that can be applied to any institution regardless of the amount of cultural diversity within the institution.
Session Format
Poster
Location
Poster
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Recommended Citation
Smith, Kim, "Using Blogs to Connect Across Cultures: A Reflection" (2019). SoTL Commons Conference. 12.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/sotlcommons/SoTL/2019/12
Using Blogs to Connect Across Cultures: A Reflection
Poster
It is common knowledge that blogging can be a useful pedagogical tool. The opportunity to carefully craft messages is particularly salient when the discussion topic is sensitive in nature. This presentation reflects on instructor and student experiences with a blogging exercise that connected two groups of individuals from very different cultural backgrounds. It provides insight into instructor and student experiences using blogs to discuss scenarios that highlighted cultural similarities and differences in the management of conflict at work. The exercise prompted learning moments that can be applied to any institution regardless of the amount of cultural diversity within the institution.
