The authors made a great point throughout the article that the use of blogs can be very effective in the higher education sector. Blogging has the potential to be a transformational technology for teaching and learning (Williams and Jacobs, 2004).  Technology is booming today and the use of blogs can be very effective in the education sector because it is a way to get students to formulate and express their own ideas and opinions. I think blogging can be very effective for students who dont normally voice their opinion but feel comfortable expressing themselves through writing. The key to the popularity of blogs, it seems, is the scope for interactivity(Jacobs and Williams). Most istructors want interacivity in the classroom and blogs will serve this purpose. Writing a blog assists here because it forces a student to confront their own opinions and contemplate how their views might be(Jacobs and Williams). I agree with Williams and Jacobs that blogs have the potential to be a transformational technology for teaching and learning. The use of blogs may take students sometime to learn but with training they will understand.

Reference:

Williams, J.B, and Jacobs, J.(2004). Exploring the use of blogs as learning spaces in the higher education sector. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology. Vol 20(2): 232-247.

Microblogging is a way to express an idea and get straight to the point. It allows users to get their ideas out on a topic in sentences. I think it is an efficient way to get an idea out.

Whether you are playing sports or working on a business or school project you need to work as a collaborators and not a competitor. As a coach I find my players seeing each other as competition instead of a teammate. In group settings when there is an ultimate goal we need to work together for success. If
we see each other as competition we will never be successful.