Advantages and disadvantages of using blogs in teaching

1. Educational Aggregators
By Fatemeh Davardan

2. What is aggregator?
 if we want to have a short definition of aggregator we can define it as; a website or program that
collects related items of content and displays them or links to them.
 But how we can use it for educational proposes? Let’s see…

3. Different Types of
Aggregators
• Service Aggregators. Service
aggregators provide homogeneous
services on their website. ...
• Social Aggregators. These websites
collect information and data from
various social media websites
like Twitter, Facebook etc. ...
• News Aggregators. ...
• Video Aggregators. ...
• Shopping Aggregators.

4. Examples of Educational
Aggregators
• RSS
• Weblogs
• Wiki
• …

5. Weblogs  What is a Blog?
A blog is a personal website that contains content
organized like a journal or a diary. Each entry is dated,
and the entries are displayed on the web page in
reverse chronological order, so that the most recent
entry is posted at the top. Readers catch up with blogs
by starting at the top and reading down until they
encounter material they're already read.

6. Why Use Blogs In Education?
• Because blogs are connected, they can foster the development of a learning community. Authors can
share opinions with each other and support each other with commentary and answers to questions.
• blogs give students ownership over their own learning and an authentic voice, allowing them
to articulate their needs and inform their own learning.
• blogging gives students a genuine and potentially worldwide audience for their work. Having such an
audience can result in feedback and greatly increase student motivation to do their best work. Students
also have each other as their potential audience, enabling each of them to take on a leadership role at
different times through the course of their learning.
• logging helps students see their work in different subjects as interconnected and helps them organize
their own learning. Working with the teacher and informed by blogs authored by experts in the field,
students can conduct a collective enquiry into a particular topic or subject matter creating their own
interpretation of the material.

7. Advantages
• Easy and quick to update or add new posts.
• People can leave comments on your blog.
• Enables you to write down your thoughts on
anything that interests you.
• People can leave comments on your blog.
• If you want to read other people's blogs there are
literally millions to choose from.

8. Disadvantages
• Personal blogs may be biased or contain inaccurate
information.
• Blogs can be time consuming. Finding time to write
regular updates can become a chore.
• People may leave rude or inappropriate comments.
• There are many irrelevant blogs around. You may
have to look at many before you find some worth
reading.

9. As a some up in this new world using technology and in this content using aggregators could help
student to learn better and have a greater experience in learning also it can motivate them to seek
knowledge.

10. References
 An Article By Stephen Downes (Blogs in Learning)
 http://www.teach-ict.com

11. Thank you!