Using blogs as a tool for private education and training institutions course effect of student motivation

The widespread use of information technologies make the integration inevitable between information technologies and the teaching and learning processes. Blogs, which are from these information technologies, are seen as potential learning environments in terms of interactive content and the benefits they might provide for education.Blogs have been shown to be effective learning and teaching tools which can be developed without any required technical knowledge or expertise. Such blogs provide the possibility of social interaction with the capability for instant response to any comments that are made. This element creates an enhancing effect that might be used daily as an effective tool for teaching in education.This study is conducted for the purpose of determining the effect of using blogs as a tool on the motivation of students. For this purpose, a survey is initiated using second year students in private primary school to evaluate the effect of using blogs and the blog's impact on student motivation.The research consists of five parts. In the first section, the structure of the Turkish educational system and the importance of private education and training institutions are analyzed. In the second part, the concept of social media and social media tools are addressed, as well as information related to the use of social media tools in education. In the third part, the concept of the blog, using blogs in education, and the advantage of using blogs in education are analyzed. Information garnered through benefit of research in this subject draws a correlation to success and the use of blogs. In the fourth part, it was mentioned about the concept of motivation the importance of motivation, motivation theories and the importance of motivation in education. Additionally it was also mentioned about the researches explaining the relationship between the motivation and using blog in the education. In the last section, the goal is to interpret the results of the applied survey data as it relates to students in private education and training institutions.