Learning design - Baking a cake.

Baking a cake without utilizing blog.
Baking a cake with the help of blogging technology.
Blogs can be a great venue for learning, due to the sheer volume of its content. A simple search on how to bake a cake reveals thousands of results. The good thing is that the result can be further narrowed down, with more specific words like "mango cake" "banana cake" or "black forest cake".Despite its excellence in providing huge quantity on information. The quality however, cannot be guaranteed. Due to its user generated nature and the lack of monitoring. The accuracy of information provided on blog must be carefully evaluated by the individual.

The benefit of living in this age of high speed internet is that users can post their instructional video for free on YouTube. Visual images depicting step by step instructions on baking a cake can be access for free. These videos like the one above can be embed onto blogs with easy "copy and paste" source code. Reliability of information can be checked through users rating and comments left by others.

On the same note, users can also provide videos or pictures of their own baking process or product for others to rate and comment on.

Blogs and youtube also provide a platform for the formation of online community where individuals can get together to discuss and provide feedback to others. Blog links, tagboards and "add friends" function facilitate such exchanges.

In conclusion, blogs provide users with large quantity of information, but these information have to be carefully evaluated. Instructional videos with decent sound and visual quality can be provided, however there is a lack of immediate feedback mechanism. Comments are often replied in an interval of days. The process of baking a cake is immediate and therefore requires immediate feedback and guidance not provided by blogs.