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In education, blogs are already being embraced by researchers, teachers and students. There are "group blogs" where the current Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) or Learning Management System (LMS) cannot provide discussion forums or bulletin boards. Groups of academics share short essays and comment on them from their different perspectives. Likewise students use blogs to publish their essays and get comments from other students about their essays' content and style. The one time in life where one has to write a personal log about what one is doing is when one is studying for a professional qualification like medicine, accountancy, law or nursing. Professional bodies always recommend that you try and do this log as you go along, perhaps even at the end of every day. Blogging is certainly a way that this can be done any time and anywhere, as long as you have a computer with internet access.
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Blog to Learn
Blogging has become a web phenomenon with at least five million active blogs on the web. In a recent US survey, 30 per cent of people say they it read blogs regularly. Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's chief operating officer (COO) actively encourages Sun employees to blog as a way of improving products and processes; and 30,000 of...
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