Affordances of Weblogs:
- Weblogs provide a virtual personal space for people to communicate their personal thoughts and publish information; this space is solely owned by the publisher. This ownership allows one to be in control of the space, find personal values and also take serious responsiblity of it. With increased responsibilites, blogger invest more time for serious and deep thinking before publishing their post. The reverse chronological order of the blog helps people to construct meanings in their activity over time and it definitely good for reflection purposes (a systematic hierarchy of the activity).
- Teachers uses blog to provide necessary instructional materials, emphasing key points, link ideas together. It also allows teachers to provide feedbacks; thus scaffolding the student. Teachers can use the blog as a platform to provide equal opportunities for students (especially the introverts) to express their opinions and views and ideas freely.
- Blogs are also easy to create (no difficult technical knowledge needed). In addition, blogs can have its interface easily customised to add a more personal feeling to it.
Constraints of Weblog:
- Weblogs does not effectively provide a social environment where students can share information, construct knowledge in an interactive manner.
- Intellectual property is also an issue for contents on weblogs. Content being used without proper attributions.
- People can easily delete and edit blogs any time. This volatily of the blogs make it difficult medium to archive content and informations.
- Since weblogs publizes a person to the rest of the world, it becomes a potential treat to cyberwellness issues.
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