Blogs in the Educational Environment

Blogs and Hypermedia:

I honestly think that we are living in a Blogosphere, surrounded by complex images, movement and sound. So perhaps it is not surprising that part of our human evolution has focused on making our technology reflect the color and glamour of our surroundings. In educational technology, blogs has been a steadily growing presence though, it’s recent inception. Like other educational technology concepts, definitions for blogs and hypermedia defy consensus, people find the two concepts either too close to distinguish between or too slippery to get words around. Blogs are simply Internet-based journals. These journals are very different from traditional journal in many ways.

The main difference is that blogs are public media. The media can be still pictures, sound, motion video, animation, and/or text items combined in a product whose purpose is to communicate information. Hypermedia refers to linked media that have their roots in a concept developed by electronic engineers. The current widespread educational uses of blogs augur an even heavier reliance on this modern communication medium via the Internet in classrooms now and in the future. Educators recognize and use these systems when they saw the powerful capabilities they offer to enhance classroom communication.