ICT SupportBlog Revolution: Expanding classroom horizons with Web logs

Blog Revolution: Expanding classroom horizons with Web logs. Will Richardson. TechLearning. Online October 2005. Think blogs are a passing fad? Then consider this: A new blog is created every second. There are more than 900,000 blog posts a day. Some two million blogs are updated every week. … a world inhabited by content-producing ordinary people—also known as bloggers—means big changes. That's soon to be true for educators, as well. …Blogs are one of many new disruptive technologies that are transforming the world. They are creating a richer, more dynamic, more interactive Web where participation is the rule rather than the exception. Like it or not, our classrooms and schools are about to be enveloped by these changes as well.