Using Blog As A Teaching Media

As we know that blog are usually (but not always) written by one person and are updated pretty regularly. Blogs are often (but not always) written on a particular topic - there are blogs on virtually any topic you can think of. From photography, to spirituality, to recipes, to personal diaries to hobbies - blogging has as many applications and varieties as you can imagine. Whole blog communities have sprung up around some of these topics putting people into contact with each other in relationships where they can learn, share ideas, make friends with and even do business with people with similar interests from around the world.

According to Brian Clarck, your blog challenge is to become a teacher. Specifically, a teacher who teaches about blogging. There is a lot more to blogging than rattling on about blog content, copyright theft, comment spam, and WordPress, though I know I tend to do a lot of that lately. So it’s up to you to tackle other aspects of blogging in this week’s blog challenge:

Teach us a blogging technique.

Teach us a how to, tip, or technique that you use to blog. Do you use special software or blogging programs? Do you use a particular text editor to write your blog posts?

How do you come up with your blog post ideas? How do you keep track of your ideas? How do you keep track of your blog?

Teach a technical aspect of blogging such as design, building widgets, using javascript, php, css, html, template tags, and template files, or how to use a Plugin or how to write a Plugin.

Share with us how you designed your website or WordPress Theme. How you got the codes to work together with the database to pull the information into your Blog. About the customization you did.

Make screenshots, screencasts, video, and dig into the code of your blogging process and tell us how it is done.

Explain only one aspect, not dozens. Focus. Use specific command language: move mouse over link, click link, look at the right hand column, direction, command specific language. Step by step instructions, number them if you want. Keep it short, concise, and instructional.

Based on teaching media subject that I've learned a week ago, I conclude that the advantages, the challenges, and using blog itself is different in some countries such as; in Brazil, Argentina, Taiwan, and Indonesia.

According to Carla, a Brazilian, as a teaching media, blog used by giving project and make interaction sharing. Blog challenge is how to keep interaction high and promote for communication. We can take the solution by make mystery guess, interaction sharing and no limited it based on imagination and creativity. Commonly, students in Brazil express themselves to many people become closer, make a community understanding, extra practice of English or better English, practice made a paper.

In Argentina, Rita said that blog is having time, cheapest, fastest, comprehensive, and it can improve English by giving and weeping photograph and mess. How it can be? In fact that language as a tool for communication can practiced by using blog. It means that we can share experiences and contact all over with text message. For example, when we write our experience in blog, many people can read what we have written then they will give some comment and advices for us. So, blog is project related to each other people.

While in Taiwan, usually blog used for presentation and video recorded. The teacher use blog for helping their performance in the class. They record or upload some files and then they share to their students. After that they ask student to watch video and evaluate it.