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About blogs

Our blog is an online journal tool and can be used to record individual or group experiences, observations, reflections, impressions, opinions, questions and research notes across a range of subjects.

Blogs allow the author to display postings in chronological order. A blog allows other participants to comment on postings, creating a networked community of learners.

Why use blogs?

  • Collaborative writing
  • Reflective, knowledge and/or learning journals
  • Critique of creative writing piece
  • Assessment responses
  • Directed Writing exercises
  • Field or research notes
  • Professional practice logs
  • Personal diary of events
  • Class information sites

Educational Uses for Weblogs (Paul Holland, 2005)

The key idea is to create critical conversation and connections in the learning experience. Weblogs enable more than just a personal writing space, but they invite users to participate in a larger community, to take their place in the information ecology, to learn how to participate in and perform (not just learn about):

  • Critical thinking
  • Creating a narrative
  • Formal and informal discourse
  • Research and attribution
  • Linking
  • Writing for others
  • Taking creative risks
  • Collaborating
  • Participating in a variety of conversations

 

  

'How to' Fact Sheets

How to create a blog project room 98k Adobe PDF document
How to create a new blog entry 82k Adobe PDF document
How to post a comment in your blog 81k Adobe PDF document

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What can you do in a blog?

  • Create and edit your own blogs
  • Add entries and comments
  • Moderate postings to your blog before they are visible on the web
  • Add a file or image to your postings
  • View postings by day or Month
  • Create a list of your favourite blogs
  • Comment on other blogs
  • Edit your blog template (colours and fonts)
  • Create a list of your favourite blogs

How can students participate?

Teachers need to create a project room and set up blogs for their students within the project area. Students can only blog in project rooms set up by their teacher. Students can use a generic project logon or their Learning Place student logon.

Our blogs and communication tools are password protected and cater for Education Queensland and Affiliate staff members or invited guests. If you need a password, please join the Learning Place. You can also reset your password if it has been forgotten.

Acceptable use policy

Before using the communication tools of the Learning Place, please read our Acceptable use statement.

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