http://eprints.qut.edu.au/5398/1/5398.pdf

The use of blogs,wikis and RSS in education: a conversation of possibilities. This article is authored by Peter Duffy and Dr. Axel Bruns. The conversation covers the benefits that blogs have regarding education. The article quotes the following:

• Can promote critical and analytical thinking. 

• Can promote creative, intuitive and associational thinking (creative and associational thinking in relation to blogs being used as brainstorming tool and also as a resource for interlinking, commenting on interlinked ideas). 

• Can promote analogical thinking. 

• Potential for increased access and exposure to quality information. 

• Combination of solitary and social interaction. 

The conversation also covers the educational uses of blogs. The following are categories in which blogs are of use.

1. In personal academic perspective

2. With in an organizational perspective

3. With in a pedagogical perspective

In each of these categories there are multiple ways the blogging can be an effective tool in education.