Tuesday, March 3, 2009

What is the Impact of Blogging to Students?

Blogs considered to be educational social software which can give students a social presence and teach students to pursue the individual activity of recording their experiences for the purpose of revisiting and reflecting upon those experience. Blogging also provide a sense of ownership over work which seems to motivate students, not only to continue blogging but to make greater efforts in their studies. Blogging offers students to share knowledge and help others with the simple interactions, feedback and networking. Besides that, blogging can provide a forum for knowledge-building activities between the students where they outline their own perspectives and share a wide range of generic knowledge by providing different viewpoints. The very nature of blogging impact students becoming engaged in reading and writing such as engaged in the literacy of science. Since blogs can be organized by date and subject students can see how their ways of thinking have changed over time. As a conclusion, blogging giving students an advantage of being able to show their work and progress as students, as well as giving them the ability to create a site of their own in the future is an indispensable skill.

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