Blogs
The term blog26 comes from weblog and, to quote Wikipedia agairt A blog is a website for which an individual or a group generates text, photographs, audio files and/or links, typically but not always on a daily or otherwise regular basis.The term is a shortened form of weblog. Authoring a blog, maintaining a blog or adding an article to an existing blog is called "blogging". Individual articles on a blog are called "blog posts", "posts" or'entries"
Although there are now literally millions of trivial and uninteresting blogs in existence, they really have to be seen in context The more serious blogs are a result of considered professional opinion and are joined together by a consensus of online opinion in virtual communities. เท education they can be used in a diversity of ways - from tools for staff professional development to students' personal portfolios.They are now used increasingly by prospective employers to gauge an individual's personal commitment to their profession in the commercial world and an informed and entertaining blog is a career plus. Blogs have been used extensively in academia for some time and are increasingly being used as a tool for courseware development and personalised learning - indeed, they are one possible future route for content in electronic portfolios. But what is really important about blogs is that they are not seen in isolation but as a small part of what is called the 'blogosphere27'. Many professional blogs are joined together using web aggregator services and likeminded professionals are aware of and react to each other's postings: often an uneasy consensus is reached or debate fired off via blogs, with each participant adding to the sum of opinion. The group often appears to moderate and reflect the whole. The use ๙ blogs in education is more advanced in the ชร, but it is still relatively new as a medium for teaching and learning28. More recently, multimedia variants ๙ blogs have begun to appear.