Blog's as an ICT Tool

Through writting this blog and exploring other's blogsd i have been able to analyse them and look at them from different perspectives! although alot of scaffolding is needed in how to use the blog and how to insert different pictues and videos and ICT tools, with a lesson on how to use the blog and make an entry, this can be easiliy learnt.
Strengths:

• Can be used to reflect and evaluate thinking processes and problem solving processes in order to get the most out of learning and use this in a more meaningful way in the future
• text based communication is online learning and supports easy storage of ideas for access to individuals and extended audiences
• further ICT tools can be embeded and used through this ICT tool!
• Acess for the teacher to understand each students thought process and progress through tsaks and learning!

Weaknesses:

•  Access to the blog can be made by anyone, unless security measures are taken.
• Students can be reluctant to share ideas with everyone
• Need access to the internet and computers to be able to use blogs

Interesting:

• Pictures can be uploaded
• Video's can be up loaded
• Vokis, Wordles and any sort of digital technology on the internet can be uploaded and shared in the blogs!
• Different templates and clocours can be used for each blog!

All together i believe Blog are a great TOOL!  Blogs al;low information to be shared even when people are not together! also topics can be researched and the oinformation can be posted in the blogs!  Poeple can comment on each others blogs and information can be shared this way!  the only way for someone to edit the information in the blog is if they do it them selves! This means no one can delete anyone elses information! 
Go Blogs!!! :)



My Teaching Experience:

I haven’t had a teaching experience with blogging just yet.  However feel I will use blogs in my future practise!  Throughout this course I have investigated and experienced blogs very in-depth and used a variety of applications within blogs.  I have had other students help me navigate around the blog and show me how to add images and videos.  After this scaffolding was done by my peer and lecturer ‘Ali Black’ (thanks Ali), I now am able to do it myself.  I can take this learning experience and apply it to my teaching by scaffolding the learners how to use the blogs. 

The reason I feel blogs are effect is because any application can be embedded into the blog and people can comment on other’s thoughts and ideas.  A blog is a place for personal reflection on learning.  As a learner reflection is a massive part as it helps evaluate your actions and improve your performance in the future!  I believe blogs can assist in the classroom as it can a place to reflect what the students have learnt each lesson and all comment and view what other students took out of the lesson.  By being able to consulate with other blogs the students can access information they may have misunderstood, misinterpreted, missed or just didn’t understand!  I feel blogs are a great tool and if used in the correct way will be an effective ICT tool.