{"id":871,"date":"2013-01-15T12:18:27","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T12:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/telsocsci\/?p=871"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:16:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:16:24","slug":"blackboard-blog-vs-journal-is-there-is-a-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/telsocsci\/blackboard\/blackboard-blog-vs-journal-is-there-is-a-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackboard: Blog vs Journal, is there is a difference?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_895\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-895\" class=\"size-full wp-image-895\" alt=\"Blog \/ Journal\" src=\"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/telsocsci\/files\/2013\/01\/small_3084017715.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"161\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-895\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/walker_ep\/3084017715\/\" target=\"_blank\">Recording Memories v2<\/a> (CC <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/2.0\/\" target=\"_blank\">BY-NC-SA 2.0<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In the current version of Blackboard (9.1) there are two options if you want to have your students completing a reflective writing or journal\/diary exercise\u00a0&#8211; use the Blog or Journal tools.<\/p>\n<p>The features in each are the same, so what&#8217;s the difference?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blog<\/strong><br \/>\nBlogs are designed to be visible to and allow comments from everyone enrolled in the Bb course.\u00a0 With an individual Blog, each person posts entries to their own Blog but everyone can see and comment on them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Journal<\/strong><br \/>\nJournals are intended to be \u00a0private between the student and the you, the instructor.\u00a0 The student can submit entries and the instructor can add comments.\u00a0 No one except the student and you can see that student&#8217;s entries to a Journal. A Journal can be made public so that others in the class can see the entries and comments.\u00a0 However, no one but the instructor and the student whose Journal it is can add comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the current version of Blackboard (9.1) there are two options if you want to have your students completing a reflective writing or journal\/diary exercise\u00a0&#8211; use the Blog or Journal tools. The features in each are the same, so what&#8217;s the difference? Blog Blogs are designed to be visible to and allow comments from everyone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":895,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[232,87,235,118,88,117],"class_list":["post-871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blackboard","tag-blackboard","tag-blog","tag-collaboration","tag-college-of-social-science","tag-journal","tag-university-of-leicester"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/telsocsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/telsocsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/telsocsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/telsocsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/telsocsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/telsocsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1117,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/telsocsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions\/1117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/telsocsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/telsocsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/telsocsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/telsocsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}