BLOGS: A TECHNOLOGICAL PORTAL TO SHARE IDEAS
Dr.
K.SURESH
Guest Teacher
Educator,
Government
College of Education,
Orathanad – 614
625.
Thanjavur.
Tamilnadu.
Abstract
We were facing a lot of problems communicating or share ideas between the peoples are more complicated due to the
communicational barriers in a traditional communication system. Today, communication or sharing ideas is so easier than the traditional in order to
the boom of technology. The most important development of technology is the Internet.
By the internet, anyone shares their ideas easily and the others can get it anywhere
of the universe. There is so much software is available to share ideas on the
website. One of the most popular and upcoming portals is the internet is Blogs.
It is an individual website to share their ideas with the internet community. It
may be a description of the text, photo, picture, diagram, audio, and video, etc.
the bloggers who make blogs giving new thoughts or refining thoughts are posted
in the blogs for sharing ideas with the internet communities. One who wants to
share the ideas he/she may create an individual blog and easily posted their
thoughts in his blogs. The people in the blog-sphere have the chance to know
different thoughts about a single thing. The blogs are aids to interconnect the
community who belongs to have the same area of interest. Blogs are simply
called as a device or a portal to share their ideas to the universe. It
occupies a prominent place in sharing ideas. The author of the paper describes
blogs, its types, and its usefulness.
Key
Words: Blogs, Blog Sphere, Bloggers, Personal,
Group
Introduction:
In the technological era, everyone
has a minimum of one electronic device such as mobiles, tablets, laptops, etc. In
this technological generation, they are most interested in sharing ideas
between the peoples through the internet like email, Facebook, WhatsApp, etc. the
upcoming and dairy of an individual is called a blog. It is an electronic
device to share individual ideas to the electronic communities. Blogging is
a verb which means that the individual writes or posts something like text,
videos, audios, diagrams, pictures or any type of matter on the internet. Ones
do blogging is called a blogger which is a noun. Generally, the individual may
share ideas through the internet by its some other applications are not called as
blogger. The blog is entirely different from the other applications like email,
facebook, whatsapp because the blogger has a daily dairy of the individual. The
individual makes some useful things on the dairy. It is an open place to posts
ideas pictures. Even though, the facebook and whatsapp gives a way to post
things for public. But the blogs restrict the public to interest people in
specific ideas. For instances, If one person posted something about
electronics, the people only interested in electronics are seeing the content.
The online community of blog users who are interest in a same content is called
as blog sphere. This paper describes the meaning of blog and its usefulness of
sharing ideas.
Blog
and its Meaning:
Blog is an abbreviated version of Web Blog which
allows the individual’s personalized publishing. In earlier days it is also called as “A Servant Boy”. Blog is a type of website or can be a
part of the website and it is maintained by an individual to share ideas with
regular entries like text, graphics and videos. These events are arranged in reverse
chronological order. According to Wikipedia, A Blog is a user generated website
where entries are made in journal style and displayed in a reversed
chronological order. Blogs allow the individual to post their ideas and it also
called as personal online dairies. A blog is short of web blog which was
started in the year of 1997. The term ‘Weblog’ was coined by Jorn Barger and
Blog was coined by 1999 by Peter Merholz who shorterned the word ‘Weblog’ into
‘Blog’. This term eventually become known both a noun and verb. Blogging
rapidly gained in popularity in the early 1990s. The website Xanga was started
in 1996-1997 with about 100 diaries and it grew to 20 million by 2005. Blogs
became even more popular beginning in 2000 with arrival of the first blog
creation tools. Previous to this, early weblogs were simply manually updated
components of common websites. By 2001, blogging how-to manuals began to appear.
In 2002, Jerome Armstrong and Markos Moulitsas Zúniga
began DailyKos began the blogs and posts ideas in the
website. It has now become one of the Internet's most trafficked blogs with 1
million hits each day. In 2004, the role of blogs became increasingly
mainstream with use by Candidates, Political consultants and new services.
Blogs can be a useful platform
for instructors in that they allow them space and opportunity to interact with
their students, as well as collaborate with their fellow academics or other
professionals they may wish to share information with. An edublog is a blog written by someone within the
educational community usually teachers. The term is a shortened version of web
log. It is a personal online publishing system which allows individuals to
write and publish their opinions, thoughts and feelings on the internet on any
subject they fancy.
Blogs
and its Components:
Each and every process of this
universe some of the factors are essential that are called as elements. For
Blogs, the following elements are essential and they are,
Blogging – The process of writing
a matter and post the something on blogs.
Bloggers – An individual who post
or writing the matter or content in the blogs
Blogosphere – The community of
the blog users in online
Blogs
and its Types:
Blogs are the available in different forms and they
are briefly given below.
ü
Personal
Blogs: It is a common blogs to post and make comment by an individual.
ü Cooperative and Organizational
Blogs: A
blog can be maintained by private for business purposes in most cases. It is
used internally for enhancing the communication and culture in a corporation or
externally for marketing, branding or public relations purposes are called
corporate blogs. Similar blogs for clubs and societies are called club blogs,
group blogs, or by similar names; typical use is to inform members and other
interested parties of club and member activities.
ü Educational Blogs: is extremely
detailed and seeks to capture a moment in time. Some sites, such as Twitter,
allow bloggers to share thoughts and feelings instantaneously with friends and
family, and are much faster than emailing or writing.
ü
VLog:
It is also called as Video blogs and it only have the Video files
ü
Linklog:
It is also called as make some useful links to access the content to relevant
to the links by the users.
ü
Sketchblog:
It is a portfolios of sketches
ü
Microblog:
It has a small content shared by the individual
ü
Textblog:
It is a portfolio of text matters or posts and contents
ü
Pictureblog:
It contains only the picture gallery
ü
Travelblog:
It allows to know the travelling details
Role
of Teacher in Edublog:
Teacher plays a vital role
in the development and utilization of log in learning. The teacher can create a
blog to reflect on the teaching experiences, keep a log of teacher-training
experiences, providing some teaching tips for other teachers, share ideas for
teaching activities or language games to use in the classroom, showcase of student
to draw art, poetry, and creative stories, and also create a literature circle
and an online book club. A teacher has to motivate the students to create their
own blogs to-write their reactions to thought –provoking questions, discuss
results of surveys they carry out as part of a class unit, express their ideas
and opinions about topics discussed in the class, show case their best writing
pieces, and discuss activities they did in class and tell what they think about
them.
Benefits
of Blogs:
Some
of the benefits are giving the bloggers than other websites on online and they
are given below.
ü
It
is easy to create and share the ideas easily by the individual with in the 10
minutes.
ü
Share
the ideas to the all blog users
ü
Post
and the obtain the matters in their own space
ü
Freedom
to speech
ü
share
knowledge with other people
ü
make
friends online
According to the teaching
Specialist Fernette and Brock Eide (2017) quotes the following as a benefits of
Blogs.
ü
Can
promote critical and analytical thinking
ü
Can
Promote analogical thinking
ü
Can
promote the intuitive and associational thinking
ü
Combination
of solitary and social interaction
Conclusion:
In this technological generation, individuals
are most interested in sharing ideas between the peoples through internet like
email, facebook, whatsapp etc. The upcoming and dairy of an individual is
called as blog. It is an electronic device to share the individual ideas to the
electronic communities. Blogging is a verb which means that the individual
writes or post something like text, videos, audios, diagrams, pictures or any
type of matter in the internet. Blogs are different types to share one’s ideas
to the online community. The author of the paper concluded that “Blogs is a Technological Portal to Share
Ideas”.
References:
ü Fernette and Eide,
Brock (2017). Benefits of Blogs. Retrieved, 12 March 2017 from www.slideshare.net/nanross/what-is-blog-presentation-889931
ü Blogs and its
meaning. Retrieved, 12 March 2017 from https://www.slideshare.net/sahils123/blog-ppt-6454520.
ü Creating Better
Blogs. Retrieved, 12 March 2017 from https://www.lynda.com/Business-Content-Marketing-tutorials/Creating-Better-Blog-Content/178127-2.html?utm_medium=integrated-partnership&utm_source=slideshare
ü Achterman,D.(2006). Making
connections with blogs and wikis.
California School Library Association Journal, 30(1), 29-31
ü Davis ,A.(2004). Ways to use weblogs
in education. Edublog insights.
ü Ray, J.(2006). Welcome to the
blogosphere: the educational use of blogs. Kappa
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