🕮💬 Blog as a Communication Tool

Reflection📑📙

This module continuous with a smooth session rewarded with brilliant ideas and ICT knowledge from day one. The session on blog as a communicative tool on 12^th April was very important and received with numerous ideas and abilities on blog. In today’s session we have learned about meaning of blog, benefits and significance of a blog, and some of the steps for creating blogs. 

After taking note of sir explanation and referring the slides, I understood that blog is one of a communicative tool or platform where bloggers can created as an online page or weblog to communicate and post their modern and innovative works, share and express their thoughts, ideas, views all around world. Blog can not only express our thoughts in writing ✍, but also share them through videos🎮 and images 👭. Blogging is asynchronous communication or learning that does not happen in real time. This communication tool has no learning time limit and is a personalized schedule that allows blogger to participate the website in their own pace and in their own.

Benefits of Blogs

Blog has heaps of advantages, it upgrade student creativity and imagination like they captures a moment in time ever day and keep up with daily journal, in that they try to think out of box, visualize and brain storm every moments they view and compose their perspectives in many point, it helps in learning, bloggers are continuously finding out about new things in blog entries. Blog is not only willing to educate others, we the blogger also learning numerous new things. Regular writing on webpage will improve our vocabulary, writing styles and different abilities in designing and computerized working💻.

As a educator it is very important that we have to teach the students how to create the blog,  blogging improves communication skills, promote self-expression, and increase self-confidence. When we express our ideas and innovative creation to others, we allow readers to post comments, provide feedback for future improvement, and ask questions that enable bloggers to respond, communicate, interact and get to know each other. Writing also gives us feelings and satisfactions like “yes, I did it👌 “and I feel capable of anything and want to do more. In this way, it helps us to boost our confidence in writing, reading and communicating. In addition to that, it helps in maintain connection and generating livelihood💰👪. Blog actually allow us to build relationships with the reader. It helps to keep in touch with different parts of the world who may not actually meet, but it helps to connect with them through blogs. The people who write blogs are very creative in writing, designing, and expressing their views. This will provide him/her with sufficient job opportunities to work and earn a living.

Steps for creating blog

 

•  Login with htpps://www.blogger.com/   
       

• Click on sign in button at left corner
      

• Then login with your Gmail account     
     

• Choose a name for your blog (Add the tile and type in URL for your blog)
  
       

• After you need to confirm your display name for your blog.
  
  

• If you want to change the blog template theme, click on the "Theme" option to customize your background themes for your blog.  
  
  

• Then click on "Customize" option to change your themes.
  
     

• Then select or choose any template of theme option and click om "Apply the Blog" option. Then return to your blog page click on "Back to Blogger".   
   

•  Click on "View blog" to view the template you have created.
  
  

• Click on "View blog" to view your profile of your blog. Then you change your profile by updating the information using "Setting" option, then we need to scroll down using mouse, click on "User profile" option.
  
  

• You can change your profile picture updating own photo on the blog and fill the text area.
  
  

• After update all information on profile option, then click on "Save profile option".
  
  
  

  
  
  

•  Click on "View update profile" to view your update information on the blog.

• Now you can post your write up using post option, then choose the "New post" to write the information.
  
  
  
  
  

•  Then it will display the screen to post your tile and content of writing to your blog.

• After the completion of the write up, click on "publish" option to post your write up
  
  
  

• You can edit or make changes to your write up by clicking on "Edit post" option. Then click on "update" option to make changes to your writing.

 Importance of Blogging in Education

Blogging is very important factors in education. Blog can help students to showcase their unique talent and make students more considerate and esthetic writer and reader. For example, if students are bloggers, they develop a more expressive first-person- voice when writing essays and personal stories. It encourages independent learning by giving students the opportunity to take more control over their learning. Blogs enhance students’ creativity and analytical thinking, where students will be able to react critically, analytically and communicate fluently and accept others people’s communication with respect and clarity. It is also a platform where students, teacher and parents interact and share their views and ideas on educational issues to reform educational development.  Finally, I want to remember that blogs are one of the best ways for students to advance their learning, become competent communicators, and writers, and for teachers who encourage sharing their teaching experiences to transform education.