Education: reflection on the use of blog as a tool for learning and teaching

Blogs usually contain diary style content, with updates
posted on a regular basis and displayed in reverse chronological order.
They often have a single author but group blogs are increasingly common
for project or research groups. The content or use of a blog is the choice
of the author and may include news, updates, articles, musings and
reflections. Most blogging tools make it easy to include audio, images,
video and links to other sites so you can easily annotate or recommend
materials on the web.
It is also possible to register your blog with newsfeed services to
automatically alert interested parties to new content on the blog. http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/teachingwithtechnology/TG-blogs-2.pdf

Students sometimes use blogs to record and reflect on their learning

experiences, whether in the classroom or tutorials. Its personal nature

facilitates the inclusion of aspects that may lie outside of the usual formal

learning and teaching spaces. You can opt to keep the entries private or

to allow others to comment on what you've written, thereby encouraging

critical reflection.

In project work, it can be used for you to keep track of thoughts and

ideas, create a written record of learning, jot notes following meetings,

and generally support the flow of information. If you are an academic you can set up a blog to act as a kind of electronic tutorial room into which you invite your students to read it and

contribute to it. This enables you to set up a tool to reflect progress and

development and a dialogue that fosters the exchange of ideas. It can be

a forum for discussing any topic and which permits contributions from

everyone involved.If you are an academic you can set up a blog to act as a kind of

electronic tutorial room into which you invite your students to read it and