Blogging | Blogging in Higher Education in 2020

What is a Blog?

Blogging | Blogging in Higher Education in  2020

 Three maintypes of blogs include filter where the author comment on contentother sites topics, personal journals where the authorwrites about their life thoughts and feelings and knowledgelogs where the author makes observations recording relevant references about aparticular domain of knowledge why should you use blogs in highereducation blogs enable learners to express individualism and explore theidentity and courage responsibility in pride intheir work and can help improve motivation and participation for Ferdig and Trammell also note that blogs assist students are becoming subject matter experts for a regular process of scouringfiltering posting.

Blogging in Higher Education in  2020

 Blogs also increased students interest andownership in learning allowing learns to participate in acommunity of practice providing opportunities for diverse perspectives Blogs have also been used in highereducation in a variety of ways for example as a learning journal orknowledge locked gather relevant information and ideas pertaining tospecific topics to record personal or everyday life toexpress emotions or feelings to interact and communicate with otherpeople as an assessment tool and as a test management tool farmer andothers provide recommendation for a good block in practice in higher education be clear in supportive about theformative assessment aspect of blogs invite students to set their own goalsfor blog usage above and beyond the quantitymeasurement encouraging model risk-taking ensure there is adequate technicalsupport available build early feedback interactivity into the experience provide adequate instruction to ensurethat everyone can access the tool at least once in a full scaffolding environment.

  Your three options with setting up a blogblackboard course blogs allow anyone in the class to contribute, while individualblogs allow for entries by one student only, group blogs can be set up group spaces to get started put in the control panelopen course tools and select blogs this opens the blogpage showing all previously created blogs.

 Click create blog start a new onion the create blog page enter a name for the assignmentinstructions in the space provided scroll down to choose availability, date restrictions and participation type individual of course. When grading a blog you'll see the-instructions followed by the student entry you enter grade and feedback in the pinon the right. Now you can get started with blogs. This the Blackboard Help pages for more information or contact the instructional development department University College for assistance created using Pow Noon.

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