Blogs as Pedagogy

Meaningful learning is often bound to process and context. Process, and context, in this case, refers to the use of Blogs as a medium for the communication of multimodal information.

Weblogs demand the integration of text, audio and video information in a manner that places the message in rich context. No longer are we mere readers of text. Blogging provokes a deeper message that contextualizes audio and video in a manner that supplements or even superceeds traditional text.

Gary Stiler, PhD
Assistant Professor
School of Education
University of Redlands
Redlands, CA

Contact me at: gary_stiler@redlands.edu

According to Wikipedia (2006) “the term blog is a blend of the terms web and log, leading to web log, weblog, and finally blog. Authoring a blog, maintaining a blog or adding an article to an existing blog is called blogging. Individual articles on a blog are called "blog posts," "posts" or "entries". A person who posts these entries is called a blogger”.