Blog is a very useful and interactive tool that can be used by teachers in his/her teaching approach to add variety into lessons or learning for students. Content, multimedias such as videos, interesting links to website can all be incorporated into a single blog for easy access by the students. Moreover the blog could also provide interaction platform for exchanging comments, ideas & feedbacks among students or from teachers to students.
In summary, the blog is a good platform for teachers to facilitate interactions with students as well for teachers to put up important information for students in an interesting manner to engage their learning. However there are some restrictions with blog; (1) teachers have to constantly monitor the blog to ensure that the comments made by students are valid and they are not misusing the blog and (2) documents cannot be shared on the blog therefore teachers will have to find other sources to do file sharing.
