Distance Technology Blog's Ratings

Distance Technologies Positive Blogs

      http://teaching21c.blogspot.com/
Learning and Teaching in the 21st Century Blog
      ·         Very colorful presentation

·         Google Translate application used in blog

·         Classroom 2.0 application used in blog

http://edupln.ning.com/video/teaching-in-the-21st-century

The Educators PLN Blog

·         Nice presentation

·         Most popular blog section

·         Feature blog section

http://www.edutopia.org/reinvent-assessment-21st-century

Edutopia Assessment Blog

·         Valuable information on assessment

·         Provides Evidence Based Video

·         Discussion and Watch application

http://www.21things4teachers.net/index.html

21 Things for Teachers Blog

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http://teacherofthe21stcentury.blogspot.com/

Teaching in the 21^st Century

·         Very nice presentation

·         Other Blog of Interest

·         Live traffic feed application

     http://passionforlearningandteaching.blogspot.ca/ 

I Teach I Learn Blog

·         Very attractive blog

·         Valuable information for parents

·         Voice message application

Pros and Cons on Distance Technologies Blogs

Pros and Cons of Blogging

A blog is a frequently updated online personal journal that is updated on an ongoing basis.  There are several pros as well as cons to the Distance Technologies blog.  These pros and cons can either make your blog successful or it may become and epic fail.  Pros to blogs can provide countless resources for enhancing the technology field; provide collaboration and engagement tools, discussion and online participation; provide instant access to information; and keep us updated in this digital world.

One the other hand, there are many cons to blogging, such as unexpected technical issues.  Your blog must be monitored regularly to keep it updated.  Some blogs are obsolete and others provide old and unreliable information.  Depending on the applications some blogs provide a lot of pop-ups that can easily distract the user when visiting your blog.  There are many benefits and obstacles when creating and using a blog.  Remember blogging can either be successful or an epic fail