EDUBLOG
www.edublogs.org
The Edublog website states that Edublog is the world's most popular education blogging service. Edublogs lets the teacher and learner easily create & manage both the learner and teacher blogs. These blogs can be customized and can include videos, photos & podcasts.Edublog sites that the main reasons why educators use blogs is to:
The Edublog website states that Edublog is the world's most popular education blogging service. Edublogs lets the teacher and learner easily create & manage both the learner and teacher blogs. These blogs can be customized and can include videos, photos & podcasts.Edublog sites that the main reasons why educators use blogs is to:
- Share information and class news with family and others
- Provide learnerts with a way to access assignments, homework, resources and information about their class online.
- For global collaboration and authentic audience.
- To inspire and motivate others.
- Blogging opens up the possibilities of audience in new ways. When students are writing or publishing for an audience other the teacher, it impacts how they view what they doing and the intrinsic motivation they have.
- Learners love seeing their work on the Internet and adore getting comments from people. It motivates them to write as it gives them an audience that is real. The blog opens up a whole new world of people who can offer encouragement and feedback.
- The blogging experience forces the students to do more reflection on their learning and allows them to showcase products they have produced with online tools.
- Blogging provides an authentic educational experience, where what they write is not only seen and commented on by their teacher, but by their peers and the “public.” For most learners, it’s a bit of extra motivation knowing their peers will see their work.
- There is an authentic audience – a global audience – one that is willing to connect, share, challenge, discuss and communicate with classes. This audience can provide further information, opinions, suggest resources, seek answers to questions and so on which pushes blogging further.
- Blogging develops a learning network. Exercise books etc.need not be pushed and crumpled in school lockers only to be placed in the rubbish bins at the end of the school year, but student work is out there for their school lives.
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Sample of an Edublog blog