overview :-Weblog or blog is a Web page that serves as a publicly accessible personal journal for an individual.( Forster and Tam (2006))Typically updated daily, blogs often reflect the personality of the author afford immediate-ness, global-ness, connected-ness and engaged-ness for bloggers. They explain immediate-ness as blog postings are available to readers on the weblog as soon as they are posted.
Global-ness of blogging means bloggers are cognizant that their postings will be accessible world wide. Weblogs, as with all websites, can link to, or be linked to from any other weblog or website on the Internet and that is the feature of connected-ness. Also another term engaged-ness as the affordance of weblogs that invites interaction between the writer and the reader.
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The aim of this study :-
This study aims to find out if using blogs as interaction tools for learning process a mange of courses .Can blog be effective tool for interaction between student during the course .
Problem of this study :-
Recently there are a lot of courses that depend in the interaction between students to exchange the knowledge and new idea so some course use the bloggers for interaction .
Participants:-
The participants are the under graduate students of Computer and Instructional Technologies Education program who study the course that using blog as interaction tool .we make survey to find out If the blog can be used as interaction tool between students .
Instruments :-
—We use survey as instrument which consist of 12 questions to collect the information or result and we upload it in Survey Console
—Survey Link: http://www.surveyconsole.com/console/TakeSurvey?id=566423
Findings and Discussion:-
The comments for 12 questions posed are analyzed through quantitative techniques.
Students’ opinions and reviews about bloggers are analyzed through questions analysis.
Findings
Question 1: Can you access in any time to the blog?
Among 12 responses posted for this question and all of them (100%) emphasized that they can access in any time to their blogger.
From these results we can estimate that the blogger is accessible.
Question 2: Can you move easy between the blogs and responses?
Among 12 responses posted for this question about half of them (55%) agreed that the transition between blogger and responses is easy, and the others (45%) do not agreed.
From these results we can estimate that the blogger need more development to exceed the obstacles that faced the students in transition between responses and blogs.
Question 3: Can you find you useful information from your friend’s responses?
Among 12 responses posted for this question about (70%) of the responses agreed that the bloggers provide useful information from user responses .but about (20%) do not agree. also, (10%) say that is not applicable.
From these results we can find that the blogger can provide useful information from the blogs response and can be as resource for some topic from the student participation.
Question 4: Dose the blog support graphic and videos?
The responses posted for this question about (60%) of them agreed that the blogger support graphic and videos but the other (40%) said that was not applicable
As we see in this result we can say the blogger support graphic and videos so blogger help student to express them self by image or videos also that make the student understand the topic or the concepts in easy way
Question 5: Dose it promote cross-cultural commutation among people?
Among 12 responses posted for this question about (73%) of them agreed that the blogger promote cross-cultural among people however (9%) do not agreed .moreover about (18%) of them said that was not applicable.
From these result we can say that the blog has cross-cultural commutation among people and can blog be as tool for exchange the idea.
Question6: Dose it quickly load?
Among 12 responses posted for this question about (50%) of them agreed that the blogger loud quickly but the other (50%) do not.
As we see in this result some users have some difficulties to loud the blog .so it is difficult to the users who have low speed connection to blog some topic or responses .
Question7: Are the sidebars useful in navigation?
Among 12 responses posted for this question about (90%) of them agreed that the blogger sidebars are useful but the other (10%) said that was not applicable.
From this result we can conclude is the blogger have good navigation control .
Question8: Is the blogger content readable?
Among the responses posted for this question about (50%) of them agreed that the blogger content but the other (25%) said that was not applicable and disagreed
From this result we can estimate that the blogger content can be read by the learner and they can extract the information from it.
Question9: Are you comfortable to the treated style that blog provide it?
Among the responses posted for this question about (73%) of them agreed that the treated style of the blogger are comfortable but the other(27%) said that was disagreed .
From this result we find that treated style is best style for the learner to sort the comment of the one topic .
Question10: Is it easy to interact with your friends in the course which use blog as learning tool
Among the responses posted for this question about (25%) of them agreed that the blogger can provide interaction with your friends in the course which use blog as learning tool but the other(25%) said that was disagreed .moreover (50%) said not applicable .
From this result we can say that the blogger don’t provides good toll for interaction between the friends in the same course.
Question11: Is it easy to interact with teacher (asking question….) in the course which uses blog as learning tool?
Among the responses posted for this question about (54%) of them disagreed that the blogger can provide interaction with teacher but the other(36%) said that was agreed .whereas (9%) said that not applicable . from this result we find that the blog can’t provide interaction with between teacher and students .
Question12: Blog is a good tool to use it in the course as interaction tool
Among the responses posted for this question about (75%) of them agreed that the blog can we used it as interaction tool but the other(25%) said that was disagreed .as we can see from this result we can conclude that the blog can we use it as interaction tool during learning tool .
Advantages:-
From the results we can estimate
—that the blogger is accessible.
—the blogger can provide useful information from the blogs response and can be as resource for some topic from the student participation
—the blogger can provide useful information from the blogs response and can be as resource for some topic from the student participation.
—the blogger support graphic and videos so blogger help student to express them self by image or videos also that make the student understand the topic or the concepts in easy way.
Limitation :-
As we see in the result
—some users have some difficulties to loud the blog .so it is difficult to the users who have low speed connection to blog some topic or responses
—the blogger have good navigation control
—the blogger content can be read by the learner and they can extract the information from it.
References :-
*Forster, W.P. and Tam,T. (2006). Weblogs and Student-Centered Learning: Personal Experiences in MBA Teaching. Information Systems Education Journal, 4 (15). http://isedj.org/4/15/. ISSN: 1545-679X.
*Eralp ALTUN*, Alev ATES**, Y. Deniz ARIKAN***, lker ÇOBANOGLU****, Tarık KISLA
Can We Use Weblogs As Learning Tools?
URL:-http://www.icits.org/includes/ornekBildiri.pdf access in25-4-2009
*Niall Watts, IT Services, University College Dublin Measures of Learning Style in the Evaluation of Blogs as Reflective Learning Tools
URL:http://www.ucd.ie/teaching/projects/colloquium2007/posters/Niall%20Watts.pdf access in 15-4-2009
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