Blogs

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogger_(service)
Web logs, also known as Blogs are a way of broadcasting your personal news to anyone interested in hearing about it. They are personal web pages that allow you to display your news in the order that you post them. After you have posted your news, others that read it may reply to you in the same fashion. Blogs can be useful to a variety of users just as the video demonstrates. A business owner can share information on his blog about his business, a mother can share her family information to other family members using her blog, and sports fans can learn about their favorite player by reading his blog. These blogs can also become a place of discussion between students in an online class. One prime example of teachers using it as a teaching tool is in our current situation of ETEC 60. The students of the class are required to post their research on various topics to a blog that they created. Another example of a teacher using this as a teaching tool is my son’s fourth grade teacher who had each of her students create their own blogs about saving sea-life animals. My son’s blog can be found at ryanssosblog.blogspot.com/ This type of strategy fit in with the constructivist school of learning because my son was already familiar with how to work on the internet, but did not know how to specifically create his own blog, so he used what he did know to help him learn how to create a blog.