Blogs are a popular internet social software technology being incorporated into educational settings. The term “weblog” was coined in 1997 by Jorn Barger and has since been shortened or abbreviated to “blog”, serving as both a noun and a verb. (Doctorow, Powers, & Johnson, 2002)
Blogs are online journals, organized in a reverse chronological order, which provide a public online forum for an individual or groups’ thoughts and writings and allow for interactivity, as readers can freely comment. Past blog postings receive a permanent link, allowing for the preservation of older posts and linking using unique URLs.
“In a business context, blogs provide a forum for learning. It logically follows therefore, that the experience of collective knowledge generation can and should be applied to traditional educational environments.” (Williams & Jacobs, 2004)
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