Blogs provide students a way to become involved in the construction of their own knowldge by allowing them to dynamically create course content and demonste a personal understanding of a subject.

Students can use blogs to:

• Link to websites related to your course
  • Students find articles and provide a brief description of how the article relates to the class in a blog.
• Explain abstract concepts
  • Students take abstract concepts from your class and turn them into concrete real-life examples through a blog.
• Demonstrate exposure to different viewpoints
• • Students identify two websites and blog on the arguments of each site.  They can discuss each sites merits (intended audience, who they represent, what evidence they use to support their opnions and any logical fallacies)
• Conecting prior knwoldge and understanding
• • Students comments in other blogs allows them to conect their prior knowldge to curent class concepts/materials.

Instructors can use blogs to:

• Explain new course content by using student blog postings as examples during a class lecture/discussion. This will allow students to see the relevance of the material they are learning and to make connections between ongoing events in and outside the class.
• Use the references made in student blogs as a foundation from which to critically analyze concepts and issues. This offers the students the ability to create their own course content and gives them ownership in their learning.