Monday, 14 March 2011

The Potential of Blogs in a Teaching Context

SWOT Analysis

Strengths
- Provides and online learning space that can be referred to anywhere there is a computer with access to the internet
- Enables feedback to be given on the posts by anyone
- Allows the sharing of information
- Uses ICT's to facilitate learning
- Promotes 
creativity
- Allows reflection
Weaknesses
- It displays personal information to anyone if settings are not changed

- Avenue for cyber bullying
- No face to face interaction
- Doesn't help with literacy skills such as handwriting and spelling
- Open for misinterpretation

- Reliant on technology
- It's a public space 

Opportunities
- Further use of ICT's to facilitate learning
- Having all students to have a blog to share their ideas and opinions
- Better teacher student relationships because of the personality shown through a blog that may not be shown within a classroom setting
Threats
- Privacy
- Competition from other blogging programs
- Unfamiliarly amongst parents
- The unknown of what others blog about and whether it is appropriate for a blog

- Some schools do not allow their students to access blogging sits


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