Education Blogging

Edublogs allows you to create and maintain blogs, whether you are a student or a teacher. It allows you to customize templates and designs. It also provides the facility for you to add videos, photos and podcasts. A plus for the user is that the site provides you with free help guides and support.

Edublogs is operated by teachers, for teachers and this means that they are in tuned to what we as teachers need. In terms of managing student blogs EduBlog has a number management tools which are available for use.

Edublogs appears to have designed for the promoting of educational blogging in schools. I can see myself encouraging my school to use this type of new technologies positively to encourage communication among the students. Visiting the site (www.edublogs.com, I can see how it can be used by my students and other teachers of information technology courses, to share experiences from student to student, teacher to student and student to teacher.

Another positive for the site is that since Edublogs are blogs that are strictly designed for educational use, these blogs can act as a forum as of in depth discussion. The site can also create a communication network of person for all over the world, to share their that common interests in teaching and learning. It also provides teachers with the opportunity to share their lesson plans, to provide varying and exciting learning techniques, and teaching ideas for the classroom. Edublogs is focus is on providing educational information based individual classrooms – a feature which is not available on many other blog site.
However, some of these features come with different payment plans. Some Blogging packages are offered free but with limited resources and features. However, a purchased solution may provide advantages that a free solution may not, such as more webspace.

Since Edublogs are a public tool and a forum that can be used to express personal viewpoints, it is
very important that teachers and students are aware of copyright issues and netiquette
when expressing their view point on these blog. Another issue that can arise in these forums is inappropriate comments and posts from students. Also, one must consider at times, the validity of some of the information being posted – do not assume that because the site is by teachers that each post will be by teachers as well and will always contain factual and accurate information. It is therefore important to keep checking for sources and references listed to ensure that true content is being posted.


This site can provide great insights for me in terms of conduction my research for my Instructional Design related courses. The site has a fast response rate and information is readily available. Edublog is one of the methods I can use to create a portfolio of my writing assignments as well as to see others that are posted there.

The site however, does not seem to be the ideal place to allow me to have ongoing discussions with my online members. It does appear, however to provide me with the opportunity to have an open forum for the exchange of ideas. Excellent opportunities for me to read and write on instructional design are available as well. I can also benefit from the site by having peer reviews on my writings. As edublogs are open to the world in the same way as websites, it is possible for to allow comments from the readers and to get feedback from them as well . I can use this feedback to improve on my work. In exploring the site, I discovered that the bloggers there continually search, filter and post ideas and information on a daily basis – and this is such information which engage higher order thinking skills.

Overall , I would say that this site provides the arguments for encouraging the use of blogging in a educational setting. The pros out-weight the cons tremendously.