A blog is a
publication mechanism, like a journal or bulletin. Blogs can promote open
dialogue and encourage community building in which both the bloggers and
commenters exchange opinions, ideas, and attitudes. Teachers can use a blog to
publish instructional materials that the students can access to and where the
students can make comments.
HOW TO USE FOR
TEACHING
As a teacher, I
can use a blog to publish instructional materials that the students can access
to and where the students can make comments. The tasks should be done using
blogs (i.e., publishing articles and sharing them with other students). While
the students develop their own blogs, I can observe and monitor the students'
progress, and identify the learning needs that have not been considered (e.g.,
students may directly or indirectly express their doubts on blogs). The blog
can offer me a hyper textual and multimedia content that supports all types of
multimedia files (text, image, video ...) and allows links to all types of
documents and websites. They are, therefore, very useful tools appropriate for
students to develop expression skills. The Blog, also, allows me the exchange
of ideas and different levels in the user role, the possibility of sharing the
management of a blog, together with the access from any place, allows the tool
to transcend the classroom space. These are some of the characteristics that
can be used by a teacher.
About its device
A blog can also be defined by which type of
device is used to compose it. A blog written by a mobile device like a mobile
phone or PDA could be called a moblog. One early blog was wearable Wireless
Webcam, an online shared diary of a person's personal life combining text,
video, and pictures transmitted live from a wearable computer and Eye Tap
device to a web site. This practice of semi-automated blogging with live video
together with text was referred to as surveillance. Such journals have been
used as evidence in legal matters.
IMPORTANCE OF USING THIS TOOL
The use of the
blog has become a very useful tool in the field of teaching, because it allows
constructivist learning, an informal channel of communication between the
teacher and the student, giving the student the opportunity to experiment with
their own learning.
If we consider
that our students are currently "digital natives", since they belong
to the Internet era, that our world is constantly revolving around technology,
that both reading and writing are the basis of education and an indispensable
requirement in any subject, an educational blog is a space in which teachers
and students can collect and produce information as part of a teaching -
learning process.
REFERENCES
Onrubia, J.
(2005, Febrero). Aprender y enseñar en entornos virtuales: actividad conjunta,
ayuda pedagógica y construcción del conocimiento. RED. Revista de Educación a
Distancia, número monográfico II. Retrieved from: http://www.um.es/ead/red/M2/conferencia_onrubia.pdf
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