An Evaluation of Blogging

In today, the internet has dramatically changed our lifestyle and continues to increasingly influence our daily life. For example, blogging, it allows individuals to become modern-day pamphleteers, to contribute to the marketplace of ideas that for so long has been dominated by a relatively select few. Blogs have become amazingly popular in short space of time. The study indicates there are about 100,000 new blogs created daily. The blogosphere has become nearly as influential as other media for many people in the world. Blogs are online journals or diaries in which individuals can post entries about the subjects that interest them most. Many bloggers link to other sites that contain interesting articles.

Blog have a tendency to promote group-oriented cooperative learning conditions in which the teacher denotes the authority and thus lend themselves well to structured learning environments such as learning management system. This creates the conditions for students to gain the skills and confidence to become self-directed, or proactive participants in the learning process. As a socially networked environment, blog would aim to create conditions under which self-direction, peer feedback, intertextuality, accoutablity and student control could be fostered.

Here are some examples of blog hosts:

 

Brainstorm Map of additional examples of the following topics:

References:

• Hudson, David L, Blogging, Infobase Publishing, 2007, Introduction
• Dillenbourg, P.; Zhu, Z. Learning by Effective Utilization of Technologies : Facilitating Intercultural Understanding, IOS Press, 2006, p343

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