1. Affordances of Blogging by Marina Cousins
Features of the technology Affordances (activities and practice) Affordances (examples of pedagogy and designs)
Connectivity with individuals or communities
of people with similar interest.
Participants can be open to public or private  Linking content materials from a course to student
understanding
 It allows for student learning to be central
 Students can participate in discussion threads
 Web 2000 technology can form part of any
formative or summative assessment task.
 Encourages students to use reflective practice or
problem solving and critical thinking skills.
 Encourages exploration of technology by the
student (like in this course – some of us do not do
this well).
 Hopefully, develops the student to have technology
fluency which might be used for international
relationships or multi-discipline team approaches to
problems.
 Embed video, audio or slide share presentations into
your blog (don’t know how to view this information
rather than just a link).
 Allows for collaborative development of resources
or research by Lecturers, students etc.
Allows for Discussion & comment features like
a Tutorial or postings of student reflections.
Open comment / discussion by
Lecturer & Students or other
communities of similar practice.
Ability to embed resources (hopefully – I am
not good at this).
Embed still images, videos and audio material
Open & Free access to set up Blogs today if you
have access to Internet Connection.
Allows open access to members of the public
from low socioeconomic backgrounds and
provides a voice to minority groups.
Ability to input and change blog content easily
Able to edit input data (feature that I use all
the time).
Allows collaboration from other authors or
students.
Aids student learning