1. Student Blogging in an Online Math Course Jodi Cotten SUNY Westchester Community College AMATYC Distance Learning Committee

2. How this idea started… Online journal. Journals were private. I learned a lot about my students and learning mathematics from reading these journals. I wanted my students to learn this from each other.

3. First idea… Online website: www.blogger.comwww.blogger.com

4. Blogger.com Good: *Easy to set up and use. *It’s the ‘in’ thing to do. Bad: *Another website to log in and check for the student and instructor. *Technical issues.

5. Back to the journal… Back to WebCT Opened up the journals to the entire class Added detail to the journal requirements.

6. The Journal Details… Your journal will include: Week 1: Your personal math biography. Weeks 2 – 13: Journal entries from the list of topics given below. Week 14: Reflection on “The Proof”. Week 15: Last entry: Reflection on the course.

7. Journal Examples MATH 120 and MATH 120H

8. Contact Information Jodi Cotten SUNY Westchester Community College Associate Professor of Mathematics 75 Grasslands Road Technology Building 119 Valhalla, New York 10591 914-606-6786 Jodi.Cotten@sunywcc.edu