Blogs versus Discussion Forums
https://www.euroresidentes.com/Blogs/ Bitacoras/img/plataforma-de-blogs.jpg A blog is a dynamic website comprised of a series of entries, called posts , on specific topics or subjects that are chosen and written by the author. Blog posts appear on the website in reverse chronological order and can be searched, archived, and categorized according to labels, called tags . Hyperlinks are featured within blog posts to quickly connect the readers to other websites, resulting in an interactive publishing space that facilitates easy sharing of resources and information between the author and their readers (Carter, 2011). Below each post is a comments stream where readers post related comments or questions on the topic, usually in a very timely fashion. Each comment is marked with the time and date of the post. Comments to blogs are typically shorter than comments in online discussion forums (Madsen, 2008). To compare blog posts to more traditional teaching methods, blogs c...