Uses for blogs.
In my personal experience, I have used blogs for only one thing and that was for a diary of sorts when I did 23things on a stick with Metronet from Minneapolis.
I did set up about seven or eight for a summer school class of 3 & 4th graders to tell a bit about their summer experience in a bicycling class, however, due to lack of time (and poor keying skills) not much got written into these blogs. In Song (2009), the author discussed using blogs in a graduate level class to post remixed art images and mentioned that: “Posting on the blog is a social action that can raise environmental awareness in others.” (p. 234). The art images were changed images that students in the class assembled and used to promote social awareness. They took an image that they found and changed it to advertise a social concept.
Churchill (2009) discovered that blogs were very useful when it came to using blogs. He concluded that there were three main blog based activities for learning and they were to read blogs of others, obtain comments from everyone and looking at others tasks and getting feedback. He had done some studying on blogs and also used them for his own reflection.
There are several uses for blogs. Not only a diary of personal learning but an opportunity for social action and the allowing of seeing others thoughts online. In this class, I suspect that our blogs will not only be a journaling of what we learned but a chance to learn from others as we read the blogs of others.
References
Churchill, D. (2009). Educational applications for Web 2.0:Using blogs to support teaching and learning. British Journal of Educational Technology 40 (1), 179-183.
Song, Y.I. K. (2009) Media art remix: a tool for social action. International Journal of Education through Art:5 (2&3), 229-240.
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