Here is a really good Blog for information about teaching and using blogs https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/avee/blogstoteach/
It has a variety of different links to information about ‘What a Blog is?’, ”How to use Blogs?’ etc… The why use Blogs is what i really paid attention to when reading this article. I believe that communication is the key for critical learning to occur and Blogs allow this to happen. Students can communiacate with one another like MySpace, Blogs allow students to be themselves, they can be creative and it is an outlet making the Blog feel like it is their own, giving them more pride in their work and hopefully they will do the work. This is a form of external motivation (the article talks about external motivation) because students will always want their Blog to be better than everyone else’s, so they will be externally motivated to complete their work and make it better in everyway possible than someone else’s.
