** My Intellectual Flakes **

Using Weblogs in Scholarship and Teaching.

The author felt that one major advantage of blogs over discussion forum is the affordance for permanence or continuity blogs afford. Unlike the online discussion enabled by Course Management System and confined to particular course, students can continue blogging beyond course. In this sense, the author became against institutional blogging service. The sense of ownership and full control over one’s blogs are critical.

However, this affordance of continuity doesn’t come naturally with weblogs. Based on my experience, students preferred to seperate work from play. Although they have the habit of blogging, they set up a new blogging account just for the school work. In this way, the blog set up for a particular course might be abandoned after the course is finished.