Curso de construção de blog da Superintendência Regional de Ensino (SRE) de Patrocínio / MG: diretrizes para utilização pedagógica desta ferramenta

Abstract

The main objective of this study is to evaluate a regional policy, idealized by the Núcleo de Tecnologia Educacional (NTE) from Patrocínio/MG, related to information and communication technology: the Blog Construction Course. The research was based on the analysis of seven blogs and is grounded by the following authors: Gomes (2005), Franco (2005) and Oliveira (2005), who discuss the prospect of blog as a tool for dissemination, interaction, collaboration and a teaching and learning process facilitator. The objective of this research was to propose a new version for the Blog Construction Course, previously based only on technical and instrumental characteristics, pointing gaps on it for its (re)structuring and promoting a new course, focused on pedagogical use, with the possibility of posts, participation and interaction of all school community segments, as the blog may constitute an educational tool in school life and stop being just a channel for school events and actions dissemination, focus of this course first version. For this research, was used the semi-structured interview method, containing a sequence of distinct questions: one for managers and one for the teacher students; beyond to consultations, observations and direct analysis on the blogs of sample schools, supported the theoretical fundamentation used in this research. With the research completion was possible to see the gaps in the ESP course and the need of a course (re)structuring by the insertion and the presentation of "blog as strategy and pedagogical resource" possibilities, as presents (Gomes, 2005). The blog as a virtual and interactive tool shows opportunities and challenges for its use in school environment due to the current prominent social networking time at school, whose trend is its pedagogical use.