Blogs serve as a central piece in the delivery of classes at MJTI, the online graduate school for which I work as Social Media Specialist. MJTI uses Typepad as their blog hosting company. Through the class blogs the professors deliver reading lists for students, audio class lectures/podcasts on the current readings, written assignments to be completed and returned to the professor via email, weekly questions and class discussions based on student questions and the professor’s answers and other communication to students is delivered via the class blog.
Below is a screenshot of a sample class blog page:
It is in this use that the blog becomes MJTI’s Course Management System. It is in using this blogging tool that courses are offered to the students. This takes the weblog or “online journal” to a new level and uses Web 2.0 technology in an educational context.
Beyond using a blog as a Course Management System where the teacher’s use of a blog to deliver content to the students another great idea for blogs in education is in encouraging the students themselves to have their own blogs.
Encourage your students to keep blogs a well. This can be a classroom or an individual project. Blogging
will help your students to express themselves and to practice valuable computer, keyboarding, writing,
spelling, and grammatical skills. Teach them how to upload photos from a digital camera if possible.
(Blogs in Education, n.d.)
Blogs can serve as a transmitter of educational material and serve as a Course Mangement System and it can also be a way for students to teach themselves and learn new skills by blogging on their own.
Blogs can serve many roles in the educational process and these are just two of what can be many ways that blogs can be used in education.
References
Adultlearn.com (n.d.). Blogs in Education. Retrieved April 3, 2010 from: http://www.adultlearn.com/blogs-education.html
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