Using Blogs to Facilitate Teaching and Embed Learning

DefinitionA blog is a personal website that contains content organized like a journal or a diary. Each entry is dated, and the entries are displayed on the web page in reverse chronological order, so that the most recent entry is posted at the top.

Where to Get a Blog Typepad Wordpress Blogger

Benefits Sharing opinions and learning Knowledge is interconnected Sense of ownership - motivation Immediate audience - local and worldwide Peer review and VOL Archiving Interactive and multimedia experiece Post class information easily

Watch Out For Ensuring you have a code of practice Cyber bullying - sometimes very hard to

spot unless vigilant