Blogger in the classroom
Blogs allow individual’s to provide commentary or insight on a certain topic or event. In the education setting blogs are beneficial to both the teacher and student. Students can use blogs entries to reflect on their learning, comment on the learning content, and provide their opinion. Moreover, Teachers can view their students’ blogs to understand their students' perspectives, track their understanding, identify gaps in learning, identify high level thinking, and follow their learning journey. Furthermore, blogs allow others to view and comment on entries. This offers a space for peers and teachers to provide valuable feedback based on the entries. As blogs entries are listed reverse-chronologically, students and teachers can track learning. Students can also view their peers learning journey which can show different methods of processing information. Blogs are not only made for entering text; users can insert images as well as provide links to other websites and multimedia which ...