A Brandnew World

                Blog is a virtual extension of the classroom which gives a chance to the students or the teachers to reflect on their thoughts and feelings easily, freely and comfortably more than ever. They can communicate between each other and learn many things from each other. It’s an area where everybody, even from the farthest ends of the earth, can reach and comment. They can ask questions, they can share their own opinions, they can say what they like etc.

                First of all, let’s start with the first time when we open our blogs. The pages are easily created, and new data is entered through a simple form and then submitted. Then we can filter the contents for many entries like date, author, category, and many other things. Also, it is not necessary for a blog to just have one administrator. You can invite and add many other authors to your blog with the same skills. You can link and inter-link in your blog, so it’s like a digital portfolio of students’ assignments and achievements. The participants can demonstrate critical thinking, take creative risks and make sophisticated use of language and design elements. The most common approaches are, I think, the personal academic perspective and the pedagogical perspective. The first one is of reflection on teaching experiences among the teachers, the resources and methods that are used, rambling regarding Professional challenges and also some tips for other academics, ilustration of specific technology-related tips. The latter is of comments based on student responses, a collaborative space for students as reviewers, an online gallery for review of works, writings etc, the encouragement of the teachers and development of a student portfolio.

                The biggest feature of blogging is that what you have last published is always in the first page. So someone can easily see the updated posts. Also, you can add many features and gadgets like popular topics which let you show the most followed articless except the other posts; a sharing link which let you share the article in facebook, twitter and etc; the subscribing button which let others subscribe to your blog and know right away when you publish a new article; a feed area which lets you show the blogs that you have subscribed; a search button which lets you find any article with the keywords; a blog archive which has all the posts inside it; a following button which lets you follow the blog throgh e-mail address; a video bar which let the visitors play the video which you have put; a poll which you can evaluate your visitors’ opinions; a link list which shows your favorite sites, blogs or web pages…

All in all, we should evgrave it in our mind that today blogs are not just for delivering the concent to the students. It’s a collaborative media which everybody can interact and improve their vision. So we can accept it as an online journal with one or many contributors

Refferences:
Blogs In Education by Scott Huette
The Use of Blogs, Wikis and RSS In Education by Duffy, Peter and Bruns
Exploring The Use of Blogs by Jeremy B. Williams