Blogs range from the personal to the political, and can focus on one narrow subject or a whole range of subjects. The Most common uses for blogging are personal using a personal web publishing forum.

But the most promising use of blogging is in the educational opportunities in corporations and institutes. Blogs are increasingly being used within companies and universities for educating students and employees.

Blog Technology

A hosting service is a Web site that will give you access to everything you need in order to create a blog. It will offer a form for you to enter your entries, tools that allow you to build a template for your blog, and access to some built-in frills.

A hosted service is the easiest and quickest way to start. Many blogging services allow new users to set up an account either for free or a nominal fee, and begin posting literally in a matter of seconds. Bloggers can either host the blog, just post on the blog.

Blogs are almost always architected as a core with plug-ins that add extra use to the core system. They use templates for the HTML and CSS for styling, so that changing the look of the page is a simple matter of changing the style sheet.

Blogging systems are so easy to use; it is easy rework or remove the “blog” features such as date and author listings, and set up a style sheet. The result looks like a regular web site, but is much easier to use than traditional editors
This makes blogging easy to update and maintain. The most unique aspect of blogging is pinging, which involves a person posting a comment about someone else's work on their own blog.

For these reasons blogs are a popular tool in the e-learning process.

Uses of Blog in E-learning

 Blogs are playing a big role in the e-learning environment these days. Instructors as well as learners are using blogs to exchange, communicate and assist in learning. Blogs are increasingly being used by researchers, teachers, and students.
Blogging for Instructors
Instructors use blogs to post class times and rules, assignment notifications, suggested readings, and exercises and instructional tips for students
Blogs are used pass along links and comments about subjects and course announcements and readings
 Blogs are used to organize in-class discussions and for organizing class seminars
Instructors are using blogs to provide summaries of readings and lectures.
Instructors use blogs for networking and personal knowledge sharing and Knowledge management
Blogging also offers speed and the opportunity to interact with diverse viewers both faculty and students globally.

Blogging for Learners

Blogs are an inventive way for learners to engage in reflective writing on classroom topics.

Blogs provide information dissemination, and provide learners with the opportunity to present his or her thoughts and opinions.

 Blogs provide individual feedback to the learners from instructors.

Blogs are great for disusing ideas, experiences or opinions and allow learners to discuss publicly what they are studying with other students and experts globally.

Blogging is helping learners to think and write more critically, learners tend to research and study harder when blogs are used.

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