Blogs

A blog is a website where a user can post entries of events, videos or photographs. They can contain web pages and links to other blogs. Anyone who uses or comments on a blog is called a blogger. The pedagogical advantages of using blogs in the classroom are that students can collaborate and communicate with each other without face to face contact. Students use reading, writing and critical thinking skills while they are browsing, reading, reflecting on blog postings, reading feedback from their own blog entries and sharing ideas and thoughts in relation to student blogs. Students can also use their own blogs as a reflective journal where they keep all of their personal thoughts and ideas in life. Teachers can also use student blogs to determine whether students understand new knowledge learnt by observing the entries posted by students. Homework, messages and photos can be posted on a class blog for parents and students to read and make comments on.