Week Three of My Blog

The last three weeks has been a great experience for me with my first blog. I have read a lot of articles on the advantages of blogging. The latest discovery I have made is that there is a new form of blogging called micro-blogging.

According to Leina et al (2013), “Micro-blogging, an emerging form of communication medium, provides a new channel for people to publish short messages updates, including daily conversations, URLs sharing and information news, by instant messages, email, the web and cell-phone. When we use forums like twitter to share information, we are micro-blogging.”

One thing that has also stood out from my readings (Ray, 2006) is that while blogging is a good tool for the classroom, there are negative issues that can present a problem. One is the problem of accessibility and the other is safety of children/ students. Not all students have a computer and internet access. There is also the threat of communicating inappropriately with persons on the internet. Teachers have to take the necessary steps to handle these issues.

I look forward to continue this blog.

Leina, J., Weijiang, L., Hui, D., & Feng, W. (2013). A Survey of researching on micro-blogging. Journal of theoretical & applied information technology, 47(3), 1213-1217.

Ray, J. (2006). Welcome to the Blogoshere: The Educational Use of Blogs (aka Edublogs). Kappa Delta Pi Record, 42(4), 175-177.

Softic, S. S. (2012). Towards Identifying Collaborative Learning Groups Using Social Media. International Journal of Emerging Technologies In Learning, 15-21.