Billiruben Levels 14.6

UTBVirtual

Using Blog at

Education.

ICT

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have become a staple of promotion and development of the so-called knowledge society. Serve as an information, venues and as a source of extrinsic motivation for students.

Now these technologies of information and communication entail the use of Web tools on the Internet called Blog, they could define as defined by the electronic encyclopedia wikipwdia [2] on blogs, these are regularly updated Web sites that collect chronological texts or articles from one or more authors, the most recent appearing first, where the author always retains the freedom to stop creating relevant published. The term blog comes from the words web and log ('log' in English = daily). The term blog, referring to the old logbooks of ships, is used when the author writes about his own life like a diary, but published online on the internet.

His academic use. Blogs in the academic processes have their own characteristics, which allow some degree of learning to create educational spaces, we can arrange these pedagogic discourse, the strategy can be classified as academic classroom allows us to encourage debate through comments and TracBack

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, allows participants to build their own identity as author of his knowledge, gives rise to communities Learning (Teachers and students), creates a covenant of commitment to the hearing, supports e-learning

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allows the habit of reading through the documentation RSS [5] , and as a result of all this digital literacy, fostering the citrus, reflection, open methodology that requires that favor the construction of knowledge. Blogs are a resource that provides Internet and that is affordable to everybody, it's free, easy to handle, very attractive to students and teachers, does not require a painstaking investigation to learn its operation, is a compilation of articles and commentaries that an organization has previously given by the publishing system chosen. In short it is easy to handle and use. Now from the educational context we would ask What participants learn the Blog?, questions you might respond as follows, with the use of the blog, students, for a hand experience and a way of dealing retrieve information provided by the collaborative groups and all can use it. On the other hand, write and perform their exercises, not only for teachers but also

for the group, this exercise allows them to understand how you navigate through the blog, as this information

organized and how it can restore itself hence the importance for students to develop skills and basic skills in handling and use of an educational blog.

The blog also give added value to teaching practices, and perceived that their students new ways to learn and interact socially with group participants, it allows teachers to provide education for life, thought from the present but that remains in the future because it provides and offers strategies for developing thinking skills and for independent learning

that facilitates the ability to learn to learn , socially as well as proposed by Vygotsky

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learning is a social activity and not just a process of making individual, an activity of production and reproduction of knowledge through which the student assimilates social modes of interaction and activity, later in his work student added to the foundations of knowledge, treated under conditions of orientation in social interaction with peers and teachers.

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Information and Communication Technology.

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[2] http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog

[3] These a reverse link that allows to know which links point to a specific post

, thereby notifies another weblog

you are quoting one of his posts . [4] Education electronic

[5] This is known as retransmission or Feed.

[6] http://www.cnep.org.mx/Informacion/teorica/educadores/vigotski.htm

By: Joaquin Lara Sierra