Higher Educational Blogging rock!

Downes (2004) says that blogging is ‘the most beautiful tool of the world and it allows us the most magic thing’. Blogging has become popular over the years , because it is considered something that  of up-to -date among users. To be honest, when the first time I knew that this unit requires me to write a blog post for a few weeks, I was quite surprised and not sure whether i can manage to write things that based on my experiences and daily life support by scholarly resources. Generally speaking, as an international student I found that blogging helps myself to express my thoughts and opinions directly to the reader. The reason why i stated that is because usually in class, i would rather sit back and relax with no face expression every time during group discussion. With blogging, i took it as a platform for me to write my opinions, thoughts and idea and based on (Robertson 2011, p.1631) higher educational blogging 'can be a medium for reflective writing’.

Robertson (2011) indicates that  the educational affordances of blogs offer opportunities for students to become self-directed learners in a supportive social environment. With this anyone can learn directly, for example off campus student consider as a way of learning to always stay alert to what is happening inside the campus. Besides that, distance learning can also be embedded right in this topic . Therefore it is not impossible for student who are living in Australia and studying at any university in United State of America. There are also advantages and disadvantage for blogging in high education because people need to stay alert and stick on their computers or gadgets at all time seems like theres no life out there. In addition, it require high commitment and good time management in this case so that we are not left behind especially for off campus students.

Downes, S 2004, 'Educational blogging', Educause review, vol. 39, pp. 14-27.

Robertson, J. 2011 ‘The educational affordances of blog for self-directed learning’, Computers and Education, vol. 57, pp. 1628 – 1644