Blogs have developed in two major ways: as a personal diary online and as
a technologically enhanced multimedia diary that can be manipulated to suit
the user’s needs. This paper investigates one such blogging programme in India
vis-a`-vis its effect on autonomy. As a part of their curriculum, the students were
asked to create their own blogs. The majority of students being unaware of
blogging, a qualitative analysis of the reflective reports showed that it helped the
students to be more aware of developing interaction within the virtual space.
It also made the students more autonomous since they had to create and edit
their own blogs to make them attractive enough for others to visit. The assigned
topics also ensured that within the strict assessment necessities of the Indian
university evaluation system, the students did not feel that they were doing
something ‘extra’ that was outside their regular curriculum.
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%X Blogs have developed in two major ways: as a personal diary online and as
a technologically enhanced multimedia diary that can be manipulated to suit
the user’s needs. This paper investigates one such blogging programme in India
vis-a`-vis its effect on autonomy. As a part of their curriculum, the students were
asked to create their own blogs. The majority of students being unaware of
blogging, a qualitative analysis of the reflective reports showed that it helped the
students to be more aware of developing interaction within the virtual space.
It also made the students more autonomous since they had to create and edit
their own blogs to make them attractive enough for others to visit. The assigned
topics also ensured that within the strict assessment necessities of the Indian
university evaluation system, the students did not feel that they were doing
something ‘extra’ that was outside their regular curriculum.
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a technologically enhanced multimedia diary that can be manipulated to suit
the user’s needs. This paper investigates one such blogging programme in India
vis-a`-vis its effect on autonomy. As a part of their curriculum, the students were
asked to create their own blogs. The majority of students being unaware of
blogging, a qualitative analysis of the reflective reports showed that it helped the
students to be more aware of developing interaction within the virtual space.
It also made the students more autonomous since they had to create and edit
their own blogs to make them attractive enough for others to visit. The assigned
topics also ensured that within the strict assessment necessities of the Indian
university evaluation system, the students did not feel that they were doing
something ‘extra’ that was outside their regular curriculum.},
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