EDUCATIONAL   TECHNOLOGY

                       SEMINAR

         TOPIC: BLOG &ONLINE FORUMS

          SUBMITTED   TO

                REV.FR.DR. SONY

                                                                                            

                                                          SUBMITTED BY

                                                                                   AKHILA.S

                                                                             NATURAL SCIENCE

 INTRODUCTION

Friends, We will discuss about the topics Blog and Online forums. The topic blog is a discussion or informational website published on the world wide web consisting of discrete,  Often informal diary – style text entries posts are typically displayed in reverse chronological order, so that the most recent post appears first, at the top of the web page. And the Online forum is a message board,  Online discussion group, bulletin board or web forum. An online forum is a  discussion area on a website where by members on post discussions, read and respond to posts by other forum members.

The main important of blog in educational field is highly motivating to students, especially those who otherwise might not become participants in classrooms. Blogs can serve at least four basic functions are classroom management, collaboration, discussion and student portfolios. The online forum helps in the educational field help are constructive interactions and participation between students increase over time etc. Both blog and onlineforum are most relevant today.

These information are collected from various websites and several books from libraries.

Now, Lets discuss about the topic ’BLOG’. This topic is interesting to us because, we are already learn in our technology lab. So lets study more about the blog.

BLOG

Wikipedia defines a blog as’ A weblog is web based publication consisting primarily of the periodic articles, most often in reverse chronological order”

Blogging is the posting of journal like pages to a website while these pages can contain photos or media, they are primarily focused on the easy ability to post written thought to a

website. The posting are organized chronologically . Typically a blog “post” can be “commented” on by others allows for a dialogue on the topic of the post. Teachers and educations have used blogs to allows for what is commonly called “peer review” meaning that students can post writing or assignments to the web and other students can respond or encourage through the comment feature.

In a broader and more educational system, blogs are about communicating. We observe our experience, reflect on it, and then write about other people read our reflections, respond from their perspectives by commenting or writing there on blog article.

  Types of Blog

TYPE OF BLOG

Educational blog

Aggregated blog

Reverse blog

Business blog

Corporate blog

Personal blog

Media blog

Group blog

 

Teacher blog

Student blog

Dialogue generation

Teacher communication

Uses for blogging in education

Uses for blogging in education

Uses of edublogs

1. Blogs are used as a learning journal or a knowledge log to

gather relevant information and ideas, and communicate with

other people

2. Some teachers use blogs to keep in contact with students

parents.

3. Some bloggers use blogs to record their own personal life

Online forums

Online forums rarely turn into heated arguments as  people are given time to research and consider their comments before replying, This in turn makes high quality discussion. Well structured and appropriately facilitated online discussion can   provide a learning environment that allows the immediate application of new information to owner’s personal and professional lives. Besides, online forums, access to knowledge is free and that forum members could willingly share their wealth of knowledge and experience with other members.

Benefits of regular online forum participation.

1. Intellectual exchange

2. Learning new ideas and refining old ones.

3. Enjoying community membership

4. Influencing the forum’s evolution

5. Contributing to others.

6. New business leads

7. Learning about new opportunities

8. Making new friends and contacts.

The characteristics of online forum

1. Require students to participate

2. Involve learning teams

3. Structure discussion

4. Use authentic tasks and topics

5. Establish a friendly, open environment

6. Relate the discussion to course objectives

7. Use humor for motivation

8. Encourage dialogue and referencing of other student postings.

Therefore technology has now become part of our life .It is also produced significant changes in ever aspects of human life. Blog were usually the work of a single individual occasionally of a small group, and often covered a single subject or topic. Online forums are a kind of computer mediated communication which allows individual to communicate with others by posting written message to exchange idea.

. By doing the seminar, I understood more about the use of blog and online forum in the field of education. It helped me to know more about information technology and its application in education. As a student teacher, this work helped more about in educational technology.

REFERENCE

·         https:/brittanica.blog.org

·         https:/support.onlineforum.org