Blog

Blog is a kind of social media tool that allows one to share ideas with authentic audience and engage the audience in conversation. It falls under communicative tool. Blogging is used to showcase individual work by enabling them to publish text, video clips, audio clips, maps, images and many others on a particular subject. For example, bloggers like Wangchu Sangay blog, Tshering Blog, and Passang Tshering blog whereby the authors share relevant articles depending upon the situation in a county.

My blog page

Even we were asked to create a blog in ICT module and start blogging on different ICT tools in teaching and learning environment. Exploring blogs was challenging as being a beginner. However, with the guidance from the tutor and exploration through internet helped me to operate the features of blog and post reflection on ICT tools successfully. Blogging is quite interesting as it present, organize, and protect our work as digital portfolios and we can communicate with each other, post images, videos, audios of our work as well. Moreover, the feedbacks that I received from the viewers in the comment section helped me to refine my writings and produce a good quality write-ups. Blogging for almost more than two months motivated me to read more and write again.

It is widely popular in education. Blogs are useful, not only as a teacher-student and student-student interaction tool, but they further develop student’s skills in their interaction outside of the classroom framework. It provide a space where teacher and students can work further develop writing and other skills with advantage of instant audience. It’s an excellent opportunities for students to read and write. It can be used as an instructional resources, in which educator can post tips, explanations or samples to help students learn and students can practice and benefit from peer reviews.

Blogging can be used in a classroom environment for reflective writing or any other journal entry as a tool to link communication between author and audience. Blogging provides opportunity for students to discuss topics outside of the classroom. With a blog, each individual has an opportunity to share their thoughts and opinions. Giving students a peer of audience for what they write and asking students to respond with comments to what their peers have written promotes the active discussion among students. Thus, it promotes autonomous learning by providing opportunities for students to take more control of their learning.