Assignment 2.2

AEDU 401
Assignment 2.2

Educational Blogging

Blogging is a great way to see how your students are grasping the content of the course in their own words.  As always there are positives and negatives to blogging. 

Positives-

1.       Gives instructors and teachers an insight to what a student’s personnel feeling are about the course or assignment. 

2.       Lets the student be creative in their own way that gives them a safe and secure place to work.  Students have the option to use videos, ppt., reference videos, or just express themselves with art.

Negatives-

1.       Instructor has to chase blogs all over the World Wide Web.

2.       Easy for students to go off subject and the instructor then has to reel them back in.  Then again is this a bad thing?

I personally had trouble finding a second negative against blogging.  Most of the other techniques we can use take a little bit of technology and time.  For example, I am currently on a temporary duty assignment that has limited access to the internet.  Blogging can be done in a half hour or so, which is sometimes what we are allowed in certain parts of the world.  So this is another reason why I think blogging is a great tool for the online learning environment.