The function and discussion of blog in Information education

Introduction

Information-based education is a new form of education, which has the characteristics of globalization of resources, learning autonomy, cooperative activities and environmental virtualization, which requires the renewal of teachers ' educational ideas and educational concepts, emphasizes human development, creates ideal environment for human development, and pays attention to the cultivation of innovative talents with high information literacy ability. The appearance of blog and the rapid popularity in information education is to cater to the current information-based education of these needs and affect the current development of information-based education.

1. The development of Blogs (blog) 1.1 The Rise of blogs

Blog, by John Baje in December 1997, the English name is blog (synonym has Web log,weblog), its most common definition is: a expression of personal thoughts, content in chronological order, and constantly updated publishing way. Users can easily and quickly publish their experiences in the form of web logs, and communicate with others in a timely and effective manner, plus a rich and colorful personality display.
It is generally believed that blogs originate from online visitors who find interesting content on the Internet and communicate with each other by e-mail. This information has evolved into the embryonic form of blogging through a conscious integration of the conscientious. There are great differences in the purpose for which bloggers (bloggers) publish and post, from hyperlinks and commentaries to other sites, to news or ideas about the company, or to personal diaries, photographs, poems, essays, or even science fiction. Because of the flexible and convenient way of communication, it has become a more and more popular communication tool among family, company, department and team, and has been applied to the practice field of education gradually.

1.2 Types of Blogs (blog)

Classifying blogs is a difficult thing to do, and blogging itself is in a growing process. It is usually a personal site that is operated by individuals or groups using fairly convenient, free maintenance software that contains links to a number of other Web sites. Generally speaking,

Formally, we can divide blogs into such types:

(1). Basic Blog

The basic blog is the simplest form of blogging (blog). Individual authors provide relevant resources for specific topics and make short comments. These topics can involve almost all areas of humanity.

(2). Group Blog

This is a simple variant of the basic blog, with some team members completing blog posts, and sometimes authors can edit their own content and edit other people's entries. This form of blogging allows members of the group to discuss some common topics, and even to work together on the same project. Also known as collaborative blogging.

(3). Knowledge Base Blog, or called K-log

The Knowledge Base blog is one of the most exciting and functional types. Due to the continuous development of blog technology, the Knowledge management based on blog will be more and more extensive. This kind of blog allows enterprises to effectively control and manage the information that was originally owned by some staff, stored in file files or personal computers. The Knowledge Base Blog provides an important internal management tool for news organizations, educational units, business enterprises, and individuals.

(4). Other: Blogs between public communities, relatives and friends, businesses, businesses, ad-based blogs, etc.

Blog due to the differences in the content of their posts, the actual status of the difference is divided into: political blogs, news blogs, educational blogs.

The type of blog is very complex, the above list of several types is a simple partitioning method, some blogs may not be classified into the above categories, and some bloggers may have several types of features at the same time.

Features of 1.3 Blog

Group-type Blog is a group for the common goal or will gather together (much like a seminar) to research and explore the problem of the site, personal blog is a personal network diary, with the accumulation of knowledge and ideas, blog into its own quick and easy to use knowledge management system. The characteristics of the Blog are:

(1). Blog is a strong private platform for individuals and smaller groups with common goals, is to serve individuals and small groups.

(2). Blogs organize articles by calendar, archive, and subject classification, and users of blogs can classify articles by themselves, or hide information that is private to the public.

(3). Blog does not register to be able to reply, at the same time whether it is written in their own blog things or participate in other blog discussion, through a call Trackback technology (Trackback can let users write comments to their blog site, And then to publish the original article of the blog server to send the URL of the page and the title, part of the body, the site name and other information, in this way to participate in other blog discussion) can keep the statement in their own blog, and through the original article can find all the network on the article on the discussion, These speakers are easy to find and dispose of arbitrarily.

(4). Blog content is through the user's thinking and carefully screened organized, through the Internet, the user is selected by others on the basis of the network resources to re-screening, which ensures the effectiveness and reliability of resources.

(5). Blog uses RDF (Resource Description Framework) standards to organize information (each blog has an "XML" flag, its linked document is an XML document, which means that RSS (RDF) is described by the XML language), you can simultaneously retrieve information within multiple blogs. With Rss,blog, you can provide "news Feeds" source to Newzcrawler, which enables sharing of information.

(6). Blogs are often a tool for a person's learning process and thinking experience to be recorded by time. For example, in the study of a computer technology (such as learning Java or ASP), if a novice to go to the forum to seek help, often will be the forum cluttered posts confused, so I think the forum is more suitable for experienced learners. and the blog user (technology master) study or study of the process of recording down, when we go to read these blog, technical Master of learning experience can be used for reference and guide us to the fastest speed to master a new technology, therefore, blog to novice guidance role than forum.

2. Problems existing in Network teaching practice 2.1 The form of teaching content is single

At present, most of the Web-based courses are presented in the form of Web pages, which is in line with the characteristics of network education and is also a trend of the development of online education courses. However, most of the current Web pages are statically presented, and their organization is linear, and the frequency of updating is not fast enough. At present, teaching content is presented in two ways:

(1). Text and still images: this is the equivalent of moving books.

(2). PowerPoint Note: This is done by putting the instructor's PowerPoint presentation files directly online.

The above two methods obviously do not accord with the learner's cognitive law, neither to the educational goal, the teaching object, the teaching content, the teaching method and so on design, also did not carry on the design to the network environment teaching activity.

2.2 Lack of reviews and feedback

Evaluation and feedback is an indispensable part of teaching. At present, the evaluation mode of network teaching is limited to the teacher's evaluation of learners (homework and examination), seldom consider the learners ' own evaluation, peer evaluation, and these two are very effective for learning to achieve a sense of achievement. The form of evaluation is usually the objective problem (choice question, non-question) and the question simple answer type subjective question, lacks the case-based and the problem-solving type practice. At present, the network teaching platform is often only give the answer results, but does not give the appropriate analysis, comments, the learner can only guess, think the solution of the problem. Based on the problem of the subjective questions, more emphasis on the knowledge of learners, knowledge of the re-organization, is not the ability of learners to solve problems, and this problem is mostly used to manually change the method, so that learners can not get feedback information in a timely manner, to a certain extent, reduce the enthusiasm of learners. In the network teaching, teachers and learners, learners and learners face-to-face communication opportunities are reduced, teachers can not be observed to understand the learner's learning situation, and can only rely on the network teaching platform or network courses (video conferencing exception) to achieve interaction. We believe that the curriculum design, development must consider the teacher-student, the students between the synchronous, asynchronous interaction, so that learners feel that their learning activities are not isolated, not only the computer and their own in the dialogue, but always someone to participate in, is human.

2.3 Lack of instructional activity design

Network learning is composed of a series of learning activities by learners, not only the starting point and the end point, but not only the design and realization of educational goals, but also the process of realization and the ability development of learners in this process. In the course of learning, the students are the main body, the teachers are the organizers and instructors of the teaching process, which plays a role in promoting and helping the students ' meaning construction process, and its function can not be neglected. Therefore, the role of teachers in the network learning is not only to provide teaching materials, every step of the teaching activities need the teacher's careful organization and guidance, such as the creation of learning situations under the network environment, the guidance of learning strategies, communication and feedback. The current network course is limited to teachers ' online answering, teacher-student discussion, lack of teachers ' organization, guidance and attention to the learning activities of learners, not really realizing group learning and collaborative learning.

Blog, a new means of information exchange will make the above shortcomings improved! The following will discuss the advantages of blog in modern information education.

3. The impact of blogs on teaching concepts

3.1 Helping to change classroom teaching strategies

In the traditional classroom teaching, the teacher is the lecturer, is the main body of the classroom teaching, the student is the recipient of the knowledge, is the object of teaching, the teaching strategy mainly revolves around how to teach, the student's main body status is not embodied. Using "blog", the teacher-student relationship will change, the students themselves on the Internet search knowledge, is the subject of learning.

3.2 helps transform the teaching process

"Blog" Information is rich, students themselves can access knowledge, teaching activities from the teacher's lectures on the transformation of human-machine interaction, student interaction, so that students have a self-expression of time and space, stimulating the students to study the interest and desire, so that students actively into the knowledge solution and problem-solving, a variety of different views of the collision and communication, Will burst out of the students thinking of a new spark of thought. The main task of teachers is to design teaching procedure, choose Teaching resources, instruct students to find problems in situations, collect information analysis problems, and find clues to solve problems.

3.3 Help to change the form of teaching

Using "blog", Students ' learning forms are mainly the form of individual learning, online communication, group discussion, teaching activities, and the transformation from traditional classroom teaching to problem-oriented inquiry activities and practical activities for knowledge application, adapting to the needs of the new curriculum reform.

4. The significance of the blog to teaching

blog--Tools for knowledge management. "The accounting, assessment, supervision, planning, acquisition, learning, circulation, integration, protection and innovation of knowledge, and the management of knowledge as assets, all activities that can effectively enhance the value of knowledge assets belong to the content of knowledge management." In combination with individuals and groups, the individual knowledge is organized, the implicit knowledge is explicit, the internal and external knowledge of the organization is integrated, and the knowledge product is the process of knowledge management. Knowledge management activities include: knowledge acquisition, i.e. creating documents and inputting documents into computer systems, adding value to knowledge through compilation, grouping and collating, developing knowledge classification methods, and marking the characteristics of new contributions to knowledge, developing the information technology base, implementing knowledge distribution, educating employees on the creation, sharing and use of knowledge.

Blog is an excellent knowledge management platform. It can not only facilitate the management of personal knowledge, but also provide a powerful weapon for team and organizational knowledge management. The use of blogs by individuals, organizations and teams can effectively classify the information in areas of interest, especially by using hyperlinks to screen, organize, and reproduce the vast amount of information scattered on the web. Blogs provide a very valuable filtering function for their readers. Blog editing, in fact, in advance for the reader to browse and sift through the data. In the vast network of time and space, blog editors picked out the most confusing, the most complex, the most compelling topic. Because of this, many software development groups, software companies (including Microsoft) attach great importance to the application of the blog. Therefore, from the perspective of knowledge management, the blog in the Education and teaching information management, will have a very wide range of possibilities, and therefore has an important application value for education and teaching.

blog--teachers and students to reflect on the tool. As an effective knowledge management tool, blog can be used for teachers and students to record what they see, what they get and what they think, and to further think on this basis. More importantly, the blog provides a platform for sharing and communication, and more people can communicate ideas and collisions. For teachers, can be the reflection and exchange of teaching, is now being paid attention to the educational narrative, can also be completed with a blog. As an assistant tool of teaching, Blog provides great convenience to teachers, and it is a great change in teachers ' thinking mode and teaching habit, which is beneficial to the growth of research teachers in the information age. For students, in the information society can make an electronic diary of their own study and life, with the accumulation and exchange of knowledge, coupled with the idea of the impact of the inspiration, to a certain extent will produce quality improvement. Blog-based learning has greatly enhanced students ' self-awareness, fostered students ' ability of active learning and collaborative learning, stimulated students ' desire for expression and thirst for knowledge, and helped the formation of students ' reflective habits.

blog--a platform for research-based learning. Blog can be a platform for research learning, its support for research-based learning is multifaceted, such as: the whole process of support, from the problem situation stage, the practical experience stage and the expression Exchange stage, support a variety of organizational forms, group cooperation Research, individual independent research, individual research and group discussion to combine; Provide file-based process evaluation , support multiple evaluations, facilitate cooperation, facilitate the teacher's learning management, tracking, monitoring and timely guidance evaluation and so on.

blog--process evaluation tools. Blog author's writing process is the process of his study, and the blog is in chronological order to arrange the article, so the blog author in chronological order each article is the basis of process evaluation. In the article not only reflects the author's creative results, but also the author's creative process and the author's reflection, as well as the author's creative inspiration. These are the information that we ignore or find difficult to collect in our traditional evaluation, and that is what the process evaluation should be concerned about.

5. The role of several forms of blogging in Teaching 5.1 teacher Blog

Teachers ' blogs can make teachers keep track of their ideas in different periods. Some of the content on the blog can be open to students, others are only open to students, and some students and other teachers can access it. This type of blog is managed by the teacher, and it plays such a role:

(1). As a supplementary judge of the degree of students ' learning acceptance

Using the blog's message function, students can not use the real name, through the communication of written language, reflect their true ideas, eliminate the teacher based on the expression of subjective errors. According to the students ' real feedback information, teachers can adjust their teaching plans and improve the teaching effect.

(2). Conducive to students to carry out research study

Through blogging, teachers can publish research questions that require learners to think and answer questions. Although this kind of communication is non-instantaneous, it can mobilize the enthusiasm of learners with different personalities, abilities and self-confidence. The learners in the answer to the question, is after their own thinking and decided, the depth of this communication is obviously the effect of passive learning is very different. Oneself can write things to answer questions, it is necessarily a process of thinking activities, this process is also a teacher in the teaching process should pursue one of the goals.

(3). Provide diversity of teaching models

Some knowledge points, some principles, and even a certain course can be fully adopted in addition to the teaching method of the model. However, due to the need for more resources, especially related to some need more time to observe the teaching content, in the classroom teaching environment in general, difficult to achieve, blog for it to provide a certain degree of convenience. For example, the current popular constructivist "collaborative learning" and other teaching models, the use of these teaching patterns is difficult to achieve in the real teaching environment, in the blog through the link, to obtain a wealth of relevant resources, sharing resources, it is the implementation of this kind of teaching process is one of the main foundation. The transfer of learner autonomy will have a positive effect. The same rich teaching model will make learners feel a new kind of stimulation, and generate the interest of continuous exploration.

(4). As a tool for answering questions

The use of blog can overcome the limitations of face-to-head approach, to achieve the non-real-time interaction between users of the network, so that the traditional way of facing the face to extend: the answer between students and teachers is no longer constrained by time and space, as long as the use of the computer around the Internet, you can always consult the teacher, classmates, To express their own opinions.

(5). Provide convenience for students to prepare and review after class

Many courses now implement electronic teaching plans, teachers do not fill the blackboard writing, improve the efficiency of the class. But there was another problem: Students were busy taking notes, or copying speeches after class, affecting the teaching of the next course. Teachers can post lectures on the Internet through blogs for students to download before class. In this way, students can put their main focus on the lecture.

5.2 Student Blog

Student blogs enable students to track and record their thoughts in different periods, ask questions, and get other people's comments. He can link to some of the sites he thinks are useful to him, and links to other students ' perceptions of such things. He can make some things private, while others are public, and others can only be seen by students.

More importantly, the blog construction process itself will encourage students to learn to run their own blog, do a beautiful, and full of learning blog, at the same time it makes the accumulation of learning is full of fun, strengthen the enthusiasm of the study. For individual students, blogs can be used as a magazine for writing exercises, or as a tool and stage for personal expression, and students write blogs to form a self-confidence and language sense of writing, gaining experience in the practice, legal, and ethical aspects of creating hyperlinks. In addition, what they write can be quickly read by others, especially since almost all blog software has the function of commenting, and further thought collision and communication can be quickly unfolded.

5.3 Class Blog

The class blog as a learning community is the result of a concerted effort by the class, which may have the following uses: In a conversation-based class, blogs can be used as a free forum for learners, who can post information, images, and links to a course or class discussion in a blog. It can also serve as a platform for students to communicate with each other on assigned assignments, and the class blog can also be organically linked to families and schools. For mid-level and high-level learners, class blogging can also help promote project-based language learning, where students can gain access to research and writing skills in class blogs. Class blog can also be used as an international class Exchange virtual space. Students from different countries can use blogs for cultural exchange, which is transparent and open to all learners, and the journals written by students on these exchange platforms can be evaluated and directed by students, teachers, parents or anyone else. By setting up, blogs can strictly enforce privacy protection and rights management, and teachers and students ' blogs can only be accessed by those who have been authorized. Students have the right to control their own blog structure.

5.4 Campus Blog

In addition to the above mentioned teaching, communication, learning advantages, but also the following role:

First of all, in "scientific research", teachers ' blogs provide a space for teachers to share experimental and research materials and create a platform for academic discussion. For example, teachers can publish the latest experiments or research findings, avoid the duplication of work colleagues, can share the latest scientific research news, broaden the horizons of all teachers, reduce information search time, can cross the boundaries of time and space, anytime and anywhere to participate in academic discussions, but also invited domestic famous scholars to participate in the discussion, get valuable advice. In terms of "consultants", it is the search platform created by the era wealth to help companies find the right campus advisors. The successful conversion of scientific research into productivity. For example, it is the era of wealth production teachers blog search platform, so that enterprises can find the field of scholars, teachers through this channel to the community to publish research results, can shorten the time and process from research to production use. In the "Job search" aspect, the study blog helps to produce the exquisite resume, the blog homepage itself is an outstanding resume material, attracts the enterprise more. Second, in the "alumni" aspect, the blog retained alumni, let them continue their blog on the campus blog, become Senior alumni. Such as: Graduate students in the school period to establish and operate their beloved blog space, whether he is around the world, the network can help alumni often come back to see this home; alumni will continue to record their work and life in the "study blog", update their contact information, alumni here to maintain contact with other alumni, To understand the status of other alumni, the school will be able to grasp the alumni of the latest developments and links, students can see the senior alumni work experience, for their study in the school to provide a good guide. Of course, a good alumni blog, to ensure that every alumni to participate, must be from the time of alumni or students to start. Finally, in the "society" aspect, the blog in the Education domain application lets the blog be advantageous to the society, its widespread application will positively promote the social development. The use of blog in the field of education is healthy, organized, so that more people have the opportunity to learn the teaching resources on campus, the content of campus blog is very valuable, the further development and utilization of its content will give the school a long-term, huge return; at the same time, the system is designed with extensibility in mind, Provide standardized interface for future function development; it can be seen that the application of blog is not only for individual schools, its wide application has a positive impact on the whole society and the whole country, so the introduction of the blog system is not only an expense, but also an investment, it will become a great educational project.

6. Blog in the teaching of a few notes

6.1 Blog More demanding information literacy

Blog users should have a certain degree of information literacy (with the ability to query, evaluate, transmit, effectively use and create a variety of representational forms of information). In knowledge management, we emphasize the credibility of knowledge, if the users of the blog does not have a certain level of information literacy, or in use by BBS stereotypes, such as the use of blogs like BBS, it is easy to create confusion and credibility of the problem of knowledge, in the use of group-based blog, this problem is particularly prominent. If the blog application in teaching and learning, not to say that using a blog such a fashionable web tool can improve the effectiveness of teaching, can cultivate students ' self-study, collaborative learning and research learning ability, students use the blog when the teachers need to guide, otherwise most of the blog may be recorded is irrelevant to the study of information. When teachers use blog teaching, it is necessary to strictly filter and filter the content on the network, and teachers need to have higher information literacy.

6.2 Blog Your insistence and connotation

Blog writing you insist on, pay attention to thought and connotation. If only a few articles on the network to collect together or make a link, it becomes the flow of accounts and network article management system, if only the mood to write, usually do not insist, will eventually become the network of knowledge garbage. Blogs focus on recording ideas, such as the view of an academic point of view, reflective of their own learning, as these ideas accumulate, to a certain extent, will produce thinking innovation and improve the ability of research.

6.3 Blog More suitable for higher education

Blogs can also be used in basic education, but I think it may be more suitable for higher education. In the basic education, we are very clear, now the primary and secondary students every day in order to test and groveling, every day there are a huge number of questions waiting for them to do, and finally have a weekend to go on a variety of various remedial classes, although quality education has been a lot of years, but also achieved certain results, but the reality is the dominant position of examination So in this situation to let primary and secondary school students to blog, the effect can be imagined.

7. Concluding remarks

Although the blog is a new way of communication, its extensive application in the field of education will help to solve the problem of communication between teachers and students, and promote the cultivation of independent learning and cooperative learning ability, which is conducive to the formation of knowledge accumulation and teaching reflection in both teaching and learning, which is conducive to the training of teachers ' information skills, To cultivate students ' information literacy and realize the overall goal of education informatization.

Although there may be some unfavorable aspects of its introduction, such as the openness of blog comments in blogs may cause undesirable information to enter the collaborative learning space; blogs may become a platform for flooding and so on, but we can not refuse to blog in the Web education of the door, Blog is the use of information technology to fly the heart of the place, is the network environment to communicate with each other space, as long as the scientific application, bold attempt, with the blog will be able to continue to develop and deepen.

The function and discussion of blog in Information education