Tool: Blogger

Requirements: Computer w/ Internet

Cost: Free

As with all other blogs, Blogger allows an individual or group to easily create and publish text, image, audio, and video content to the web.  Blogger is an exceptionally easy yet powerful blog tool that will have you creating and editing a blog in no time.

Example Uses

• individual creates a blog about a topic or topics of interest and shares it so the world (or a select group of people) can benefit from his or her expertise.
• individual creates a private blog to reflect on his or her learning experiences - possibly shares blog with just the teacher in order to get feedback on reflection assignments.
• a group creates and maintains a blog about course topics to share information and resources with each other (and strengthen that learning community)

Benefits

• build learning community
• encourages and supports collaborative efforts (or building collaboration skills)
• appeals to multiple learning styles because of inclusion of multi-media elements

Tutorials

• Reading and Posting to Blogs (and Blogger, in particular)
• Creating and Customizing Your Blogger Blog