Educational BLOG

What’s an academic blog ?

An schooling weblog or edublog is a weblog (weblog) created for academic functions. Blogs supply an enormous educational potential as an internet useful resource.

There are many ways to use an education blog they provide many benefits.

In part Weblog types, uses and advantages from paper The Use of Weblogs in Higher Education: Benefits and Barriers the next classification of edublogs based on the position (teacher or scholar) performed by the author of the weblog is proposed:

1. Teacher weblog: weblogs written by instructors are primarily used as a further communication channel to share info with college students. Teacher weblogs normally include course content material, course administration info, normal commentary to all college students about their studying progress, and so on.
2. Pupil weblog: weblogs written by college students are mainly studying weblogs or venture weblogs. A studying weblog is a studying diary that studies the educational expertise, each the educational content material and the educational course of. Apart from, a weblog will also be the consequence or the educational final result of a topic. Lastly, a venture weblog, usually authored by a workforce of scholars, paperwork the venture progress and findings.

Methods to make use of blogs in schooling

There are numerous methods to make use of blogs in schooling:

1. Present info for college kids.
2. Facilitate discussions and sharing concepts.
3. Substitute e-mail communication (publication).
4. Put up multimedia content material, reminiscent of movies, podcasts and paperwork.
5. Create a category publication.
6. Share info and ideas amongst different lecturers.
7. Hold involved with dad and mom.

Advantages of blogs in schooling

Blogs provide many advantages for schooling:

1. Promotes autonomous studying by offering alternatives for college kids to take extra management of their studying
2. Motivates college students to change into higher readers and writers.
3. Promotes dialogue amongst college students.
4. Encourages the usage of the Web and the Internet amongst college students (and lecturers).