On the use of student teacher blogs during teaching practice

The use of different types of social software in education has increased in recent years. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the topics of blog posts – how student teachers use blogs during their teaching practice and what the content of the posts are. The sample consists of 26 student teachers who had the opportunity to use a collective blog during their teaching practice. Their posts were analysed by means of a content analysis. The most discussed topics included self-awareness, practice management and the teacher's role. Posts were divided into two types: descriptive and critical, and descriptive posts prevailed.