Will Richardson has stated FIVE(5) good reasons why he thinks that Blog should be titled the educational technology tool of 2004 in his post. In his words, blogs can provide:
1. Audience
2. Constructivist Learning
3. Collaborative Learning
4. Critical Reading, Thinking and Writing Skills
5. Information Literacy Skills
As presented during the EdTech Award Ceremony 2004, we too believe that the potential of blogs has yet to be unleashed, especially in the context of Singapore education.
I am not sure if anyone here has explored wiki, but looking at the online tools that we have experimented so far, web page, email, forum, none of which is so easy to use to faciliate teaching and learning. Best of all, blog empowers our students with ownership, the blog itself, as well as learning.
– a Singaporean teacher's storeroom 🖖