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Welcome to Ben's Blog about Blogging. This Blog includes definitions, articles, interesting links, video, audio and posts and attempts to make sense of how Blogging can be used effectively in an educational context.

This Blog has been created using Blogger, a free, automated weblog publishing tool that sends updates to a site via FTP. You need to create a free Google Account in the process of setting up this Blog.

Check out the post: "Create a Blog: The 5 Minute Blog", for a basic demonstration on how to set up a Blogger account so you can start Blogging. Enjoy!

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Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Are blogs useful to education?

In the educational landscape, the Web, says Downes (2004), is now a familiar part, "and for those sites where personal publishing or chronologically ordered content would be useful, blogs have stepped to the fore."

Ferdig and Trammel (2004), highlight that blogs are a useful educational tool "because they provide a space for students to reflect and publish their thoughts and understandings. And because blogs can be commented on, they provide opportunities for feedback and potential scaffolding of new ideas. Blogs also feature hyperlinks, which help students begin to understand the relational and contextual basis of knowledge, knowledge construction and meaning making."

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