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The Use of Weblogs in higher education (Weblogs are personal web pages…

- - - - Style and Content
        
        interactive weblogs and the closed weblogs
        
        personal topics, political/social/economic commentaries, information technology, etc
        
        Eight Types
        
        Professional journalist
        
        Non-traditional journalist
        
        Bloggers focused on a specific theme (movement, event, topic or interest)
        
        Education community
        
        Self-expression/journaling crowd
        
        Business/marketing/promotion community
        
        Weblogs behind the firewall
        
        Experimenters and Innovators
        
        Instructor weblog: weblogs written by instructors are mainly used as an additional communication channel to share information with students. Instructor weblogs usually contain course content, course management information, general commentary to all students about their learning progress
        
        Student weblog: weblogs written by students are basically learning weblogs or project weblogs. A learning weblog is “a learning diary, created concurrently with the learning experience, and reporting on the learning content as wells as the process (including time taken, sources used, and so forth)”. A project weblog, often authored by a team of students, documents the project progress and findings.
        
        USES
        
        documenting one’s life
        
        providing commentary and opinions
        
        expressing deeply felt
        emotions
        
        articulating ideas through writing
        
        forming and maintaining community forums.
        
        weblogs are being used to satisfy a variety of communication needs to favour e-learning practices. In a matrix of some of the possible uses of weblogs in education is shown. These possible uses are analyzed in a two dimension space: who uses the weblog (instructors or students) and for what (writing or reading). Following this same matrix, a list of possible uses is provided in:
        a. improving writing skills
        b. encouraging reflective writing
        c. reading student weblogs for assessment d. sharing resources and ideas
        e. recording progress and process
        f. course administration
        g. group work
        
        Farrell discusses five ways of using weblogs in the classroom
        
        Professor-written weblogs which cover
        interesting developments that relate to the theme of the course
        
        Standard class web pages (class times, syllabus, etc.)
        
        organization of in-class discussion
        
        organization of intensive seminars where students have to provide weekly summaries of the readings
        
        requiring students to write their own weblogs as part of their grade
        
        1) A weblog keeps records for TQM (Total Quality Management) policies in teaching
        assessment. The information provided by the analysis of the weblog development may be used by the academic institutions to carry out a SWOT (Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) analysis of the teaching-learning process. Finally, improvement areas can be shown for future deployment
        
        2) Faculty members use weblogs to post class announcements, syllabi, assignments, and more in addition to offering students a forum for discussing class topics
        
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  - - - Learning with weblogs enhances students' cognitive and social construction of knowledge.
      - The technology behind weblogs and presents the basic functionality of weblogs. The different roles weblogs can play in teaching and learning are discussed and some case studies of use of weblog in education are shown.