Task: Blogs, Wikis and Personal Reflections

The following quote comes from an article titled "Mobile Blogs, Personal Reflections and Learning Environments" drawing on experiences from the RAMBLE Project in 1995 - 2006 "Personal reflection and internal distillation constitute a large part of the educational process, which takes place independently of the classroom, whether on or off campus. They can be facilitated by blogs acting as personal diaries, addressing a specific theme or, more generally, offering personal reflection on any matters that affect their daily lives."

In 2006 there was a conference titled "Blogs.ac.uk 2006 Conference - What Does Accessibility Mean To The Blogging Community?" with a collection of slides that can be downloaded.  There are some easy guidelines on  How to Make Your Blog Accessible to Blind Readers and it is possible to make accessible calendars. Here are 8 Tips for Accessible Blogging

As Blogs tend to be text based they are usually accessible but research has shown that students tend to have diverse reactions to their use of e-learning for any number of reasons as mentioned by Sharpe and Benfield in their paper "The Student Experience of E-learning in Higher Education: A Review of the Literature."

Using Blogs for Learning. "The goal of Blogs for Learning is to provide information and resources as to the technical, legal, and pedagogical aspects of blogging in the classroom." Michigan State University

 "Using Blogs for Formative Assessment and Interactive Teaching"

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