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Blog Tool in Online@UT
Why Blog? | How to Configure Course Blog | How to Create Blogs and Journals
Why Blog?
A blog page in your Online@UT course is an easy, familiar, and informal way for an instructor and students to communicate and publish their thoughts in a journal style. Blog entries may contain text, images,links and video.
Types of blogs
- Course Blog: A central course blog is created automatically in the course site. By default, only the instructor can write in the course blog. The instructor can allow students to comment, exchange opinions, and ask questions by changing settings of the central course blog.
- Group Blog: Blog entries can be viewed by a selected individual or a group of students. The instructor can further specify the writing permissions for blog group members. The instructor also specifies whether non-members of the blog can view the blog content.
- Private Journal: In a private journal, blog members are unable to view each other's entries, but the instructor can view all entries in the blog.
Some ideas for using blogs in Online@UT
- Instructor's blog: instructor posts regular announcements, additional thoughts that relate to class material, Online@UT, and class experiences. Students can comment, exchange opinions, and ask questions through comments.
- Class Discussions: an instructor posts a question, statement, or a video; and students build discussion around it.
- Project blog: class diary for students who work on a group project.
- Peer Editing blog: a group of students post their drafts on the group blog. Other members of the group provide their feedback through comments.
- Guest Speaker blog: a blog that brings an expert/experts to the online class for students to network and conference with.
- Student E-portfolio: Blog presents and organizes student work as a digital portfolio.
- Research Diary blog: a chronological report of a student on an individual research project.
Why Blog? | How to Configure Course Blog | How to Create Blogs and Journals
