Blogging is beneficial for supporting student reflection.

Personally I feel that blogging is a good way for students to 'pen' down their thoughts and feelings as students are more comfortable with online technology and info-comm tools. Having said that, teachers should also ensure that students follow a guideline for posting their reflections. With these guidelines in place, students' reflections would be more structured and it would be easier for the reader to follow the train of thought.

Guidelines that students should follow are :-

• they should write down briefly what they already know or read
• they should be able to support any comments or opinions that they make with relevant quotes/instances from either their readings or their past experiences. students can also post these articles or websites on their blogs so that the readers can follow up on their own
• students should also read any comments or questions that may have been written with regards to their reflections and continue to learn gain a more in depth understanding of the topic that they are reflecting. Comments help to maybe highlight a certain aspect of the issue that was not thought about.

If students can follow these guidelines and conduct their thinking in a formal and responsible way, both the readers and the author of the blog would benefit greatly from the postings.

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