Blogs
Our first post on this learning technology blog is about Blogs.
First a definition from Wikipedia
'Blog is the contraction universally used for weblog, a type of website where entries are made (such as in a journal or diary), displayed in a reverse chronological order.
Blogs often provide commentary or news on a particular subject, such as food, politics, or local news; some function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. Most blogs are primarily textual although some focus on photographs (photoblog), videos (vlog), or audio (podcasting), and are part of a wider network of social media.
The word blog can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.'
Blogs can be useful for recording information and disseminating that information to a global population.
In the learning technology world blogs can be useful for several things. From a students perspective blogs can be useful for creating personal reflective journals, allowing the student to reflect on their work, or maybe as a knowledge management tool to help them collate and manage their own learning experience. Another use of a blog for the student might be as a group discussion or co-ordination tool allowing the student to engage and disseminate group work. And one final use might be if a student wanted to build up an e-portfolio of work.
From the Instructor's point of view blogs are useful for disseminating information to students such as tips on coursework or disseminating course information to students or maybe for the instructor to stay current with the information in their field.
Blogs are a very useful tool , for me personally I read lots and lots of blogs everyday by using the RSS feed feature that most blogs contain, it allows me to stay up to date with information current to my field of research (Learning Technology) as most colleagues in the same field have blogs and publish on them regularly.
There are many free blogging services available on the web, the most popular being Blogger.com, others include EduBlogs, Gaggle, DA Blogs.
First a definition from Wikipedia
'Blog is the contraction universally used for weblog, a type of website where entries are made (such as in a journal or diary), displayed in a reverse chronological order.
Blogs often provide commentary or news on a particular subject, such as food, politics, or local news; some function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. Most blogs are primarily textual although some focus on photographs (photoblog), videos (vlog), or audio (podcasting), and are part of a wider network of social media.
The word blog can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.'
Blogs can be useful for recording information and disseminating that information to a global population.
In the learning technology world blogs can be useful for several things. From a students perspective blogs can be useful for creating personal reflective journals, allowing the student to reflect on their work, or maybe as a knowledge management tool to help them collate and manage their own learning experience. Another use of a blog for the student might be as a group discussion or co-ordination tool allowing the student to engage and disseminate group work. And one final use might be if a student wanted to build up an e-portfolio of work.
From the Instructor's point of view blogs are useful for disseminating information to students such as tips on coursework or disseminating course information to students or maybe for the instructor to stay current with the information in their field.
Blogs are a very useful tool , for me personally I read lots and lots of blogs everyday by using the RSS feed feature that most blogs contain, it allows me to stay up to date with information current to my field of research (Learning Technology) as most colleagues in the same field have blogs and publish on them regularly.
There are many free blogging services available on the web, the most popular being Blogger.com, others include EduBlogs, Gaggle, DA Blogs.
posted by Stefano Ghazzali at 11:25 am
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