A weblog is defined by Merriam Webster as a website that contains online personal reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks provided by the writer.
The potential of Weblogs to emphasize active student participation and collaboration raises great expectations for a new pedagogical quality in higher education, irma-international. Weblog is essential to students in the higher education because blogs provide students with information. Proper formal language is the one mainly used in blogs to stimulate students proper language usage. It promotes critical and independent thinking, as well as critical analysis, as they are required to read and reflect on whatever they have read. It provides students with relevant environment to their careers.
It enables students to express their own understanding of information they have read, and be criticized. When they write on their blogs they create their own interpretation, and opinion of the researched internet information.
On a personal level I think weblogs are the formal way of sharing information. They are not destructive they do not have many graphics, because the main focus is sharing of information. I never use them in informal contexts, i use them only for academic purposes when requested like this one of EFP. Students are equipped with
technology and Internet access, but ‘only a minority of the students (around 21%) were engaged in
creating their own content and multimedia for the Web’ (Bennett et al, 2008: 778), M Andergassen - 2009.
They are very informative in that you will find many people's personal interpretations of certain researches which might broaden your own understanding.
It is not easy to find blogs to follow in blogs. I think it is because following other bloggers is the least priority, but it will be easier if we get suggested blogs based on the similarities of the discussions we have on our own blogs. In this way students will get more motivated to read and research further on the topic in hand.
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