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Blogs in Education Kevin Curran and David Marshall School of Computing and Intelligent Systems, Faculty of Engineering, University of Ulster 3515 Kevin Curran et al./ Elixir Adv. Engg. Info. 36 (2011) 3515-3518 Available online at www.elixirjournal.org Advanced Engineering Informatics Elixir Adv. Engg. Info. 36 (2011) 3515 -3518 Blogs in education Kevin Curran and David Marshall School of Computing and Intelligent Systems, Faculty of Engineering, University of Ulster. ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT Article history: Educational blogs are used to allow educators to interact with students from any location. Received: 18 May 2011; Teachers sharing ideas through blogs is a promising way to communicate teaching ideas and Received in revised form: allows multicultural teaching methods to be disseminated. The blogs that tell the educator 8 July 2011; how to use technology within the classroom are informative as many teachers would have no Accepted: 18 July 2011; idea about such teaching methods. Research based blogs allow users to see different educational topics discussed in more depth. This paper provides an overview of the impact Keywords blogs are having in an educational context. Educational blogs, © 2011 Elixir All rights reserved. Classroom, Teachers. Introduction Xanga, started in 1996, had only 100 diaries by 1997, and over A blog is a website that is maintained by an individual or 50,000,000 in December 2005. It was the launch of Open group with regular updates of information; this information Diaries in 1998 that helped blogging become more popular, as could include diary entries, descriptions of events or in this case this was the first blog community where readers could add educational material. In most blogs readers can supply comments to other writers' blog entries. Others started blog comments to blog entries, this allows them to ask questions, add communities including Pita.com, Diaryland, Blogger.com and information to the blog post or simply comment on a good/bad Lifelog. The pioneer of weblogging tools is Dave Winer who post. Recently blogs have become more media focused with the changed a blog from just a website to frenzy within the inclusion of art (artblog), photographs (photoblog), sketches computer world. One of his most significant contributions was (sketchblog), videos (vlog), music (MP3 blog) and audio setting up servers so that blogs could make a sound to indicate (podcasting) (Morris and Terro, 2005). Micro blogging has also when it has been updated. In 2001 Andrew Sullivan's blog and emerged as a popular format with blogs such as twitter Ron Gunzburger’s Politics1.com became one of the first broadly becoming extremely popular with both celebrities and the popular American blogs. These blog on US politics. User general public. Blog search engines have also emerged such as manuals also started to appear for the novice users. This helped Technorati which tracks over 112 million blogs. A person that the blog become a modern phenomenon, as people who just has a blog is called a blogger and when you are maintaining, heard of them but could not actually figure out how to start their adding to or reading other blogs, this is referred to as blogging own, could now do so. The importance of the blogging (Hill, 2005). community gained rapid respect and importance, in actual fact As 2004 commenced, blogging really started to make its journalism schools started to teach about blogging, the mark, but it was playing the role of a mainstream news service difference from blogging to journalism. A year later from this, in due to the fact that bloggers began to provide nearly-instant 2002, Markos Moulitsas Zuniga started up DailyKos which had commentary on televised events, instead of the more traditional up to a million visits a day during peak events, it has now online diary blog which was not as popular. An example of this become one of the most trafficked blogs (Hill, 2005). is in the December 2004 Tsunami which had people blogging When the war in Iraq began, it also started the first blog about the events that occurred. Here blogs such as Medecins war. Iraqi bloggers started to read other blogs from America and Sans Frontieres were created, which used SMS text messaging their views on the war in Iraq, they seen that the Americans were to report from affected areas in Sri Lanka and Southern India so naive to what was really going on and so they joined blogging to that people could read about the extend of the damage. The term get their message across. One of the most memorable blogger blog came about with the two words web and log combined was a man called Salam Pax, who published a book of his blog together and then shortened by Jorn Barger in 1997. The term to show his views of the war and open others eyes to it. Blogs was then shortened by Peter Merholz in May of 1999. Justin played an important role in opening up peoples eyes to the brutal Hall who began eleven years of personal blogging in 1994 while facts of war. Blogs were also created by soldiers serving in the being a student at Swarthmore College, is generally recognized Iraq war. Such blogs were referred to as milblogs, which gave as one of the first bloggers. Before blogging came about there readers new perspectives on the realities of war, as well as often were several other similar communities such as Usenet, email- offering different viewpoints from those of official news lists and Bulletin board systems. However the blog evolved from sources. the on-line diary where people would keep a blog of their There are many different types of blogs, from personal to personal lives, the first of these personal blogs started in 1995. educational. A personal blog is one where the blogger uses it as Most of the writers called themselves diarists and journalists. an online diary, posting views on anything that they consider After a slow start, blogging rapidly became popular: the site interesting. A career blog is one which is used to dictate a Tele: E-mail addresses: [email protected] © 2011 Elixir All rights reserved 3516 Kevin Curran et al./ Elixir Adv. Engg. Info. 36 (2011) 3515-3518 professional journey, demonstrate expertise, or network out to networks have also been connected with cyber Bullying and other professionals. It shows the bloggers career moves through unlawful activity. Video allows teachers to upload videos of all jobs throughout their lifetime, but has little of no ties to them lecturing or just information filled presentations to the his/her employer. A paid blog is one where a person is web. This allows students from around the globe to watch and employed to blog for a living, this can be done to promote the learn. You tube has been used by teachers to teach students company, log onto other blogs to tell others of the company, or outside the classroom, users may subscribe to the educators to raise search engine relevancy so that the company becomes video and are alerted each time a new video is posted. It is also more well known. Cultural blogs allow the bloggers to discuss possible to create a group that will allow students and educators their preferred music, sports, theater, arts, and popular culture. to post up videos to do with their school or class. An example of These are among the most read blogs within the blogging a you tube channel being used buy a university is The community because people like to talk to others with the same Vancouver Film School this page features all of the students interests and it is a great way to meet new people that have the videos as well as a few portfolio videos. same things in common. Almost like a chat room. Topical blogs There are a number of reasons to integrate blogs into the focus on just one topic. An example of this is the Google blog curriculum. A blog could make education demand oriented and which only covers news about Google. These types of blogs participant-centred which is excellent for self driven learners need to keep the readers attention and meet the readers needs so who need individual feedback. This open approach to that the amount of readers and comments keeps increasing. The information allows the user to be curious and imaginative. Blogs business blogs help promote the businesses in which they are can encourage pupils to be active throughout the period of created for as they are free and easy to maintain. The stock learning and allows access to information in any time or place. market is a popular subject of blogging where both amateur and There are also drawbacks however as supply orientation is a professional investors use blogs to share stock tips. A moblog large part of the educational structure of many schools and some or mobile blog, consists of content posted to the Internet from a have other commitments and cannot visit a blog as much as mobile phone. However it may require special software to do others. It is also worth noting that within the comment system, this blog. Collaborative blogs can be created by everyone or people may not feel the need to ask questions as questions will limited to a group of people. An example of a collaborative blog be made public is Blogcritics, but now thinks itself as an online magazine more Educational Blogs than a blog. Educational blogs were created for students and An E-learning bog is a blog which is designed to educate teachers alike and are growing in popularity. Students can use the reader in the art of E-learning. E-learning is pedagogy blogs to record what they learn and teachers can use blogs to empowered by digital technology.
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