Students often make use of blogging to communicate with other students, alerting others to their presence online or to other web links.

This fact may be taken into account to best understand how to use blogs as part of the teaching and learning environment.

A focus group session or discussion will often provide you ( the educator or teacher) with the levels of information a student may require to best navigate their way through either the teachers blog or their own.

Students need access to information before commencing blogging such as ;

• privacy - protect personal information
• copyright - address the use of copyright material
• content management - content navigation
• provision - the best and worst types of blogging software
• support - forums to gain information
• accessibility - making sites easily identified
• networking - syndication using RSS

In summary, educators and teachers must ensure students better understand the issues and risks associated with blogging whilst maintaining an open accord to the ways in which students may choose to use this technology.

Students will often "point" to other areas where they interact online and indeed blogs may become the preferred navigational tool which summarises their online and offline learning experiences.