The document discusses the purpose and utility of blogging in education. It explains that blogging allows for knowledge sharing and transmission between bloggers and readers. Blogs can be used for teaching purposes by having students complete blogging assignments and projects related to course topics. Blogs also provide opportunities for research by allowing researchers to receive feedback on their work from readers. Overall, the document argues that blogging has many advantages for the educational system by facilitating knowledge sharing and extending learning beyond the classroom.

1. MOUNT TABOR TRAINING COLLEGE
PATHANAPURAM
ONLINE ASSIGNMENT-BLOGGING
INFORMATION, TEACHING, RESEARCH
PURPOSE AND UTILITY
Submitted By
VEENA JOHNSON
II ND SEMESTER B. ED.
OPTION: SOCIAL SCIENCE

2. INTRODUCTION
When the development of information and communication technology (ICT),
peoples ways to share ideas between communities are changed from time to time.
This common issue that will be explained in all common art ideas. In order to solve
this problem, a model based on blog is constructed. The emergence of blog as a part
of web 2.0 brings a right way to manage knowledge appropriately. A weblog (or
“blog”) is a frequently updated personal online space (a type of webpage) where an
author (a blogger) publisher a series of “post“, engages others in discussion of his/her
post and collect and share resources. This post starts searchable by category and
achieved over a long period of time, usually in revenue chronological order. Blog is
a part of web 2.0, which is characterized by the fact of having many tools that enable
the production, communication, sharing and discrimination of information.
Nowadays blogs complete with mainstream media in delivering news and
information. Important events was covered and celebrity death are often reported
quickly and more accurately on blogs and twitter has traditional news service etc.
Because anyone can easily setup their own blogs and share their thoughts online.
Blogs are written on just about any subject once for a wide range of purposes
including personal business work and sharing news stories.
Some examples of educational blogs are teachers personal blogs are:-
 Teachers Personal Blogs.
 Class Blogs
 Students Blogs
 Information Blogs

3. THE BASIC STRUCTURE OF BLOG
 Dashboard
The back end areas of blogs where we can make changes and edits.
ThemeThe template look of the bloggers that people see when they visit on
bloggers blog.
 Theme Layout
Blog themes normally includes a header a content areas for the blogging and
layout.
 Header
The header is the area of a top of the blog, where bloggers title.
 Posts
Posts are where you normally post or publish the latest updates or new
articles on a blog. They are commonly displayed in the reverse
chronological orders with the most recent post at the top of the page.A
blogging have only one post page which normally displays.
 Comments
The blogging only readers to publish comments on the posts they read.
These is the bloggers can share their thoughts, connect with header and
interact
 Pages
Use page share the blogging information with the readers.
 RSS (Really Simple Syndication)
Through RSS the new information added in website without having to visit
the website.

4. EXPLANATION
Blogging is not a simple explanation it comes from a cluster of weblogs
called Blogs. As a result of sharing of knowledge, knowledge transmission should
be able to develop very well in order to reach effective learning among people.
INFORMATION UTILITY
Blogging gave the information transmission among bloggers and readers.
The readers can transmit their knowledge with others. In the blogging this will called
as knowledge management.
Knowledge management is a management theory which is emerged in 1990.
Knowledge management can be defined as process of creating, acquiring, capturing,
sharing and using knowledge or information. Through the blogging information can
create, capture and share to other readers and transform it.
Now blogging gave main attention to the delivering of news and information.
Anyone can easily set up their own blogs and share their information, including
personnel, business, work and stories. The informations are either video or audio.
TEACHING PURPOSE
Classroom blogging system are becoming increasily in school, they are often
short lived and unsuccessful effort for maintaining. So the teachers use so much
blogging. Efforts to sustain it a long period.
One of the main blog used in classroom for used the blogging project and
blogging related to topic of syllabus were publishing and it helps the pupils to
achieve more points than in class. Teacher first starts blogging projects from each
student and complete it with all students and whole school/college, by using the
whole blog address or each blog address.

5. Then teachers encourage students to become regular readers of blog so that
they can acquire more knowledge and more class to interact with teachers and their
group. The interactive forum which help the teacher to interact with the students
and other teachers and containing conversation around topics and gave opportunity
to both teacher and students for practicing skills on their own language and teachers
can also record it and correct their mistakes.
Then the teacher can teach student to comment on their blogs. It is a
systematic process in blogging. Then the teacher can promote the students for blog
entries to parents and colleagues. Then the teacher can emphasize the important
quality of writing play in successful blogs. And the teacher can consider naming
and training student editors. The teacher can schedule regular readers for video
conference, back sessions so that the teacher can achieve and provide a lot of
advantage while teaching.
RESEARCH PURPOSE AND OTHER UTILITY
The Blogging gave a more opportunity for the Research purpose. The
researchers who research for any subject will help them to add more suggestion from
others, sometimes the Bloggers that is the researchers will allow the readers to read
their work and gather their feedback. Add, reduce and re-write their work by
blogging system.
Their suggestion and complete their doubts and complete their works. The
readers will gave full support to the researcher’s.
A Blogging can interact the people, to reflect the ideas, fecilitate online
discussion, obtain feedback, develop a voice, express creativity, to motivate,
improve literacy, share lessons, and assignments, replace newsletters, connect with
global audience, create 24/7 Learning Environment, Discuss ideas and information.

6. Extend the classroom walls, create a school website and share resources are the other
utilities of Blogging.
CONCLUSION
So the blogging have a lots of advantages in the educational world. The educational
system will improve a lots of by the interference of the blogging and its development.
The purpose of blogging is delimited and scopeless. In an educational system the
purpose of blogging in differently defines. The rapid development of
communication is already change the existing ideas and communication modes. The
blogging is also one of the development in the world ICT.

7. REFERENCES
 Internet
 Weblog.edu.com
 http/web.webmedia.com
 edublogs-introblogging-262y6.com
 TU-blogs-2.pdf