Blogging as A Learning Tool

What is a Blog?
A blog is a website where individuals write commentaries on an ongoing basis. Visitors can comment or link to a blog. Some writers use blogs to organize thoughts, others use it to to gain web influence.

There are numerous types of blogs and topics that people choose to write about here are a few:
*Chronicles of life experiences
*Blogs about unique perspectives such as news, and politics
*How to/tutorial blogs
*Personal blogs

Integrating the use of Blogs as a Teaching Tool could be done by a teacher who posts an assignment, discussion topic, or a theme on a blog and could require students to respond.
The teacher who uses blogging as a tool will focus less on content delivery and more on student discovery.

Advantages:
*One advantage to this is that students can log on at different places and times.
*Blogging should be used to engage students and to stimulate thinking.
*Blogging makes way for more self-directed learning, and peer to peer collaboration.