When travelling overseas or to a foreign area, one might keep a journal of what they see, hear, feel, experience, smell and taste during their journey. They might send postcards or letters to loved ones informing them about what they are experiencing.
Since our world is increasingly becoming more technologically based, you would expect that to inform many people about news in your life or through your journey, you wouldn't need to handwrite 20 thousand letters and walk all the way to the postbox to send them. Instead now, people all around the world are posting blogs on the internet where others can read about their opinions or any exciting news they have to share. Blogs can include podcasts, images, music and links to other websites to increase interest. They can be used by anyone.
As I am studying to become a secondary teacher, I will need to experiment with different technologies to connect with my students and to maintain their interest while I am teaching.
Keeping a blog that they can readily access would be helpful in keeping them updated with homework, assignments, excursions, due dates, topics covered in class that they want to go back over or if they are away from school for a period of time, they would be able to keep up to date.
A negative aspect of a blog used for these purposes could be a decrease in numbers at school; if they can learn everything from home, why bother coming to school?
Over the next 10 weeks, I will be posting blogs about my journey through a university course called E-Learning. It should be a challenge for me as I don't know very much about this subject in particular, but hopefully by the end will be able to understand and use different tools that can enhance my classrooms in the future.
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