Definition: A weblog, which is usually referred to as blog, is a type of website where entries are made (as in a journal or diary) and displayed in a reverse chronological order.

Learner Applications: Writing, critiquing, sharing, collaborating, providing feedback

Instructor Applications: Critiquing, presenting, reviewing, assessing, providing feedback, observing student work

Examples of use in teaching and learning:

• Spooky Projects- Spooky Projects is a set of four 3-hour classes in October 2006 hosted by Machine Project and taught by Tod E. Kurt. It is an introduction to microcontroller programming and interfacing with the real world using the Arduino physical computing platform.

• Internet & Society - This is the instructor's blog for the Northwestern University course on Internet & Society.
• Many Voices - This is a blog by an 8th grade English teacher at Silver Spring International Middle School in Montgomery County, MD who used blogging as a collaborative tool for story writing

• Edublog 2006 award winners
  

Services: Add other blogging tools you have found useful

• Blogger - Google's free, easy-to-use, popular Blog service.
  
• Class Blogmeister - Class Blogmeister is one of several free blogging engines that have been developed specifically for classroom use.
• LiveJournal - free
• Twitter - free - microblogging (140 characters)
  
• Wordpress - free

Successful Practices: Add what has worked for you.

• Introduce students to the blog with an activity that requires them to post information.
• Encourage students to develop their own uses for the blog.

Resources:

• 50 Ways to Use Twitter in the College Classroom