Blogs are software tools that allow one or more people to easily publish content to the web. A contribution to the blog is called a post and these posts are displayed on the page in reverse-chronological order (the newest post is at the top of the page and is followed by successively older posts). A post can have audio, video, text, images, or a combination of those things. Blogs also allow you to add widgets (small snippets of code that pull in information from other sites (like I'm doing with the video, below). For more info, see the Wikipedia entry on Blogs
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Potential Benefits
build community
increase engagment in course
increase 21st century information literacy skills
appeal to different learning styles
Example Uses
There are numerous ways you / your students can use blogs. Examples include:
a faculty member keeps a blog on thoughts, ideas, resources related to the course and shares with students
an individual student keeps a blog to reflect on his or her learning and to collect artifacts to demonstrate those reflections.
group of students create and maintain a blog to share course info and resources
a group of faculty who teach different sections of the same course work together on a blog that houses all the interesting content they feel would be useful in the course.
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