5+Tips

- In order to stay relevant and up to date, blogging needs to occur on a regular basis (daily or multiple times per week). This is best achieved through use of effective SNT’s - The use of blogging to go beyond the classroom, as students can post idea’s/concepts that may or may not work on their own farms (thus broadening their individual horizon. This could also be incorporated with the use of skype to so that a face to face interaction takes place - Allows students to blog about concepts that they may be facing, or that agriculture as a whole is facing (i.e the effect of climate change on agricultural productivity in Australia), this could also be expanded by using youtube or file sharing technologies.  - Use blogs as a way to create discussion. Treat it like a conversation, so ask __relevant__ questions related to the agriculture sector  - Use blogs to keep the class up to date with new technologies (i.e new herbicides, active command steering, or precision ag).