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Learning Outcomes Introduction to Blogs… Pedagogical Advantages of Blogs Technological advantages of Blogs What research says about the Blogs? Blogs in Classroom scenario Examples of Blogging Tools Do’s and Don’ts of Blogs, Bloggetiquettes Discussion Possible answers	Unit 2.2 - Blogs Dear learners in previous unit you learned about the learning management system and its various features. These features provide the learner with a virtual classroom environment. You might have observed that beside the classrooms, learning occurs ‘Out of the classroom environment’ as well. This learning includes peer to peer interaction. In this peer to peer interaction, learners enrich their learning by interacting and discussing with each other. They receive feedback, comments and share knowledge with each other (including the teacher). They also communicate with the teacher to clarify their queries, which were not resolved during classroom. They connect with each other for knowledge sharing, develop collaborative projects and completion of the assignments. In this unit we will discuss some of the online available tools which help the learning community to perform these tasks on web based platform. Learning Outcomes: After going through this unit, you will be able to Discuss the application of Blogs and Social Networking in teaching learning process List the different blogging and social networking tools and their features Apply these tools in your teaching learning process Introduction You have read an article on news paper or visited to a historical place. Now you want to share your thoughts on this matter with others and want to know what others are thinking on your views. What you will do …..? Would you send an e-mail to your connections without knowing their interests or you would share the same in any news paper where the editor will cut short or alter the main thought which you wanted to share... Seems to be difficult task!! Is it? Don’t worry you will come to know about a free web based platform where you can do all the above activity hassle free and publish your thoughts to the world instantly. Curious to know more about it…? The platform is called BLOGS… Before we move further, let’s watch a video to know more about blog. Click on Video 02 -Blogs (on right hand panel) to watch this video. Examples of Blogging Tools Do’s and Don’ts of Blogs, Bloggetiquettes Discussion Possible answers [1] Help	Suggested Reading Reading 1 <fck:hr>  Suggested Videos Video 01 Unit Intro Video 02 Blogs Video 03 <fck:hr> Suggested Audio Audio 01 Audio 02 Audio 03 </fck:hr></fck:hr>
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