Posting 2- Blogging

The Art of Blogging

Overview, Definitions, Uses, and Implications
George Siemens December 1, 2002

Uses for blogging

As an emerging tool, blogging uses have still not been completely explored. Some current uses:
*Knowledge sharing and knowledge management - see Bottoms Up KM Development
*Customer service - see Blogging Goes Corporate
*Interactive journalism - see Instapundit
*Communication
*Self-expression
*Learning - see SchoolBlogs
*Self-marketing
*Campaigning/social reform - see Tara Grubb
*Community building
*Experience tracking - A K-log Pilot Recap
*Storytelling - see Grassroots KM Through Blogging
Most common uses for blogging are personal and, considering its origins as a personal web publishing forum, this makes sense. Emerging uses promise opportunities in corporations and education. Further application will also be realized as existing uses (communication, learning, knowledge management, interactive journalism, etc.) are adopted by various industries - notably entertainment, health care, government...........

http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/blogging_part_1.htm- you can visit this website for the full article.

Other link that related to blogging:

http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/erm04/erm0450.asp

As we may know and what we have learned in our class and tutorial, blogging offers powerful opportunities for online collaboration for both language professionals and learners. It may provide a practice environment where we can think, reflect, and create language slowly for a real-life audience in other words we can improve and enhance our writing skill. Again as our lecturer mention, blogging is valued as a pedagogical tool appears to be in its authentic, interesting and communicative nature. Of course we will use hypertext, to connect to what others have written on a topic or to resources on the Web, this then provide us with lots of information and sources. Blog entries are normally followed by a comment button, allowing readers to write a reaction, which is then logged and linked, along with all other comments, into the original text, thus making us improve our language by sharing and exchange ideas and thoughts. Besides that, by including videos, sound, photographs and links blogs can be interactive and colourful, also by that it will attract us to read and the most important is that we will be motivated on continuing doing the blog. What I like most is that when we are blogging, our teacher or lecturer can see when and what we write and they can provide us with feedbacks via comments linked to our post thus we will improve our writing skill. All in all, by blogging we can improve and enhance our writing skill step by step=). We just have to keep on learning!!!=)

These are some blogs that I find interesting and I like to visit.

http://thelanguagelearningblog.com/

http://www.enotes.com/blogs/english-teacher-blog/