Blogs
Online Documentation ANGEL 7.2 > Lessons Tab > Blogs
- Blog
- Creating a Blog.
- How to Create/Edit a Blog
- Understanding the Blog Environment
- Navigating the header menu
- Navigate to the start page
- Create a new entry
- Search the blog
- Search help
- Using the sidebar menu
- Understanding the content area
- Editing an entry
- Closing an entry
- Closing other entries
- Viewing references
- Jump to an entry
- Rollback to an entry
- Delete a blog
- Using Comments
- Adding a comment
- Deleting a comment
- Editing a comment
- Responding to a comment
Blog
A blog (short for Web log) is a web page with content posted by its owner that may offer the opportunity for visitors to comment on the posting. It is different from a wiki in the sense that only the blog’s owner can edit the text of the blog while a wiki allows anyone to edit the content.
Blogs (like wikis) help build engaging online learning environments and are used with discussions and wikis to foster collaborative learning and greater peer-to-peer and student-to-faculty communication. A short sample of online educational activities well suited to blog technology could include:
- Instructor professional practice blogs – these blogs can provide information about leaders in their respective fields and provides a forum to discuss information pertaining to professional practice.
- Instructional tips for students – a simple, public way of communicating with your students.
- Sense of community for students- blogs can be used for single students to reflect on lessons, or by groups of students to share knowledge, reflection and debate.
- Course announcements and readings – instructor commentary about announcements or reading assignments.
- Annotated links – a collection of annotated research links.
Blogs allow instructors the ability to find new ways to evaluate, recommend and refer student work. The autonomy created by blogs allows students and instructors to find new ways to interact. They are personal and less collaborative in nature, more static than wikis, and they capture changes in thinking with the links to the outside being secondary.
In ANGEL® a blog is treated as just another lesson item, with the same grading options as any other lesson item. The following picture shows some of the benefits of the blog format:
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D
C
Letter |
Section name |
Benefit |
A |
Header menu |
Manage each blog’s content from this toolbar – only the person who made the original post may edit blog content. |
B |
Right menu |
A timeline of changes, complete table of contents, and listing of content tags within the blog. |
C |
Blog Content |
Blog content – easy to format, easy to edit. Only the blog owner may edit the content. |
D |
Comments |
Blog content supports threaded responses to blog entries. |
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