What
is a blog?
A blog may be define as a
short for web log. Which allows students to publish ideas, it may be seen as an
online journal or dairy. (Christopher pappas2013).
How can blogs be used to enhance
teaching:
- The teacher might have a large classroom, and may not be able to respond to each student individually, causing some to feel left out and lost. The blog can help such students, if they were not able to get the teachers attention, they can post their concerns on the blog. The teacher can then answer all their problems. This way the student would be able to learn what they missed in class.
- The teacher may not be able to make it in class, instead of wasting the day without any teaching. The teacher can have a discussion of what he/she had planned to teach in class, on the blog. This way the students can still be in line with the course outline, and would be able to express them self.
- Blogs can enhance students writing , and thinking skills. If there is a discussion on the blog page, the students would have to think of interesting ideas to post to continue the discussion. The students would also have to post such discussion in Standard English, which would help them to become more familiar with the language. If however a student finds it difficult to post in Standard English the teacher can correct such student.
- It also enhances students reading and understanding skills, because students would have to read and try to understand what their other colleagues are saying.
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