Wiki Page, Social Media in Education: Blog: How to use it in Education?

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2016-10-19T02:06:30-06:00

“Blogging in the classroom” may bring up this idea that there’s one way to present blogging to your students, but there are many different ways for educators to use blog for their course.

For this module, we will use the blog as a platform for student to reflect on specific questions and create a discussions posts and to post answer for collaboration.

How to implement it in your course?

1. Before asking your student to create their own blog, let your student know specific rules that you want to implement. Make sure to give specific directions on what you want student to post or discuss and how you want it presented and submitted to you. You can specify if you want the url of their blog be sent to you via email or if your school is using a Learning Management System, you can create an assignment link and have student post the url to their posting.

2. After establishing sets of rules, student will need to create their own blog. They can select from a list of hosted sites such as WordPress or Blogger and create a blog specific for the course.

3. A discussion topic or question must be given to student either as a homework or something they can do while in the class. Once they have the discussion topic or question, let them figure out who they want to address the topic.

If you have any questions or need more information about how to incorporate this type of media in your course, leave your question in the discussion area.

For other websites to use for blogging, checkout the article "best places to start a blog".