Cloud Service Blogger as Effective Communication Tool of Teacher and

Students at the University

Dmytro M. Bodnenko

1 a

, Tamara O. Fedyk

1 b

, Oleksandra V. Lokaziuk

1 c

Volodymyr V. Proshkin

1 d

, Olena Y. Korzh

2 e

, Ihor A. Tverdokhlib

3 f

and Andrii M. Striuk

4 g

Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University, 18/2 Bulvarno-Kudriavska Str., Kyiv, 04053, Ukraine

State University of Telecommunications, 7 Solomenska Str., Kyiv, 03110, Ukraine

National Pedagogical Dragomanov University, Str., 9 Pyrohova Kyiv, 01601, Ukraine

Kryvyi Rih National University, 11 Vitaliy Matusevych Str., Kryvyi Rih, 50027, Ukraine

Keywords:

Cloud Service, Blogger, Communication, Educational Process, University Environment.

Abstract:

The article outlines the important problem of communication between teachers and students in a mixed form

of education. The Blogger cloud service is considered as a mean of communication. Based on the analysis

of the service functions and the available deﬁnitions, the own interpretation of the cloud service Blogger is

presented. Its advantages and disadvantages are highlighted. We developed the strategy of creation of the

block in Blogger cloud service, consisting of 7 stages: formulation of the name, choice of design, selection

of topics, determining the frequency of publications and target audience, building a scheme of blog creation,

testing. Fisher’s test proves the effectiveness of the Blogger cloud service in the educational process, in

particular in the learning process of the discipline “Methods of teaching linguistic disciplines”. As a result

of the survey, it was found that the systematic work of the blog has a positive effect on the formation of a

conscious and active student movement.

1 INTRODUCTION

The implementation of the educational process in

terms of social distancing encourages the search for

alternative forms and methods of communicative in-

teraction between teachers and students. Effective

means of communication aimed at minimizing gaps

in communication between participants in the edu-

cational process become especially relevant. One of

such tool is a blog – a notable cultural and social phe-

nomenon that, due to its popularity, ease of use and

creation, has a signiﬁcant impact on today’s youth.

The advantages of the blog, which are especially im-

portant in a mixed form of education, include: the

ability to work on an Internet project of several peo-

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ple; openness and availability of information; inter-

activity, providing feedback and reviews from users –

students, applicants and teachers. Therefore, we con-

sider it appropriate to analyze the features of the blog

as a means of communication on the example cloud

service Blogger, who does not require additional soft-

ware; to explore the practical application of the Blog-

ger cloud service in a university environment.

Today, the research of many scientists is devoted

to the creation of information educational environ-

ment. In particular, Burov et al. (Burov et al., 2020)

studied the effectiveness of teaching individuals with

the use of electronic education resources. Zhaldak

et al. (Zhaldak et al., 2021) believed that by using

cloud services in the work, users can use those re-

sources that are on remote servers. Kukharenko et al.

(Kukharenko et al., 2022) was inclined to think that

it is important for both students and teachers to de-

velop their competencies, which are related to mod-

ern ICT. Popel and Shyshkina (Popel and Shyshkina,

2019) believed that in the modern environment of in-

formation and educational technologies there are new

models of educational activities organization, which

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Cloud Service Blogger as Effective Communication Tool of Teacher and Students at the University.

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are primarily based on innovative solutions for the or-

ganization of technological infrastructure of the envi-

ronment, to which we can also include cloud-oriented.

Bodnenko et al. (Bodnenko et al., 2022) revealed

the importance of using the Yammer cloud service to

organize project-based learning methods. Bodnenko

(Bodnenko, 2013) revealed the role and the impact

of informatization on the professional teacher com-

petences.

The problem of the “blog” integration and its fea-

tures have been studied in the works of many schol-

ars. Thus, Nosenko and Bogdan (Nosenko and Bog-

dan, 2015), Iﬁnedo (Iﬁnedo, 2018), Dovzhik et al.

(Dovzhik et al., 2021), Winster and Swamynathan

(Winster and Swamynathan, 2010), Garcia et al. (Gar-

cia et al., 2019) considered issues highlighting the

deﬁnition of “blog”, on the features of using cloud

services to create blogs. Tsetsos and Prentzas (Tset-

sos and Prentzas, 2021) focused on a survey of ap-

proaches integrating blogs in school education. Bon-

darchuk (Bondarchuk, 2013) emphasized the compat-

ibility of Blogger with other Google subsidiaries and

support for “drag and drop when setting up a page”.

We consider interesting the scientiﬁc achieve-

ments in which it is revealed methodological aspects

of the implementation of the educational blog “De-

velopment of a creative child. ICT” as part of edu-

cational course “Database Management System Mi-

crosoft Access” (Pokryshen et al., 2019).

2 THE OBJECTIVE OF

RESEARCH

The object of the study is a cloud service from Google

Corporation – Blogger. The subject of the research

is the use of Blogger to organize communication be-

tween teachers and students at the university. The aim

of the study is to reveal the relevance and expediency

of using the cloud service Blogger for communication

of students and professors of the university.

To achieve this goal next tasks were performed:

analyze the main deﬁnitions of the study; highlight

the advantages and disadvantages of using the Blog-

ger cloud service; explore the strategy of creating a

blog on the cloud service Blogger; to test the devel-

oped blog among university students

3 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

The following research methods were used to imple-

ment the outlined tasks:

1) comparative and analytical, which became lead-

ing in the study of the basic terms “blog” and

“Blogger” and the study of their features;

2) structural, through which the advantages and dis-

advantages of cloud service Blogger were identi-

ﬁed;

3) descriptive, which presents all the main stages of

creating and ﬁlling the blog “Students IF”;

4) statistical (Fisher’s method) to prove the impor-

tance of using the Blogger cloud service as a com-

munication tool for teachers and students at the

university.

The study was conducted based on Borys

Grinchenko Kyiv University during September – De-

cember 2021. The survey involved 1324 students and

358 teachers of Grinchenko University.

4 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

4.1 Theoretical Framework

The dynamic development of technology creates new

challenges for society, but at the same time, it is

driven by a desire to meet the growing needs of soci-

ety. One of the important needs is communication, the

range of means of providing which has signiﬁcantly

expanded due to the rapid improvement of informa-

tion technology. Forms of communication are chang-

ing in the context of globalization, and one such form

is the blog. The blog acquires special signiﬁcance for

the implementation of communication between teach-

ers and students at the university, especially in the

conditions of distance learning.

Let’s deﬁne the deﬁnition of “blog”. For our

study, seems to be an acceptable deﬁnition pro-

posed by Nosenko and Bogdan (Nosenko and Bog-

dan, 2015): blog (from “weblog”, “online journal or

event diary”) is a website whose content is regularly

accompanied by entries with text, images or multime-

dia. We agree with the authors that the key feature

of the blog is short posts, placed in reverse chrono-

logical order, which are public, i.e. available to all

Internet users who have the opportunity to view and

comment on them.

There are several classiﬁcations of blog features.

Herring identiﬁes three main social goals of the blog:

“Get information; to impress others; have fun” (Her-

ring, 2007). Følstad et al. (Følstad et al., 2021)

identiﬁes ﬁve functions: “Maintaining contact with

relatives and friends; getting information; entertain-

ment; public opinion monitoring; socialization”. In

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turn, Polyuzhin and Vr

abely (Polyuzhin and Vr

abely,

2005) give a more detailed classiﬁcation of blog func-

tions, he singles out “Communicative function, self-

presentation function, entertainment function, func-

tion of cohesion and maintenance of social ties, func-

tion of memoirs, function of self-development and re-

ﬂection, psychotherapeutic function”. The last classi-

ﬁcation will be used in our study.

It should be noted that the use of blogs in online

education implies a clear deﬁnition of didactic goals

and tasks:

• actualization of basic knowledge and skills;

• understanding the essence of concepts, methods

of activity;

• consolidation of acquired knowledge;

• solving problem situations, control and assess-

ment of knowledge, level of satisfaction with

classes, etc.

Applying blogs during online education to fulﬁll

set didactic tasks creates

• a creative nature of educational and cognitive ac-

tivity;

• elements of competition, game nature of the les-

son are introduced;

• intergroup and group interaction of students is or-

ganized;

• constant monitoring of their satisfaction, emo-

tional comfort, etc. is carried out.

Therefore, the communication of teachers and stu-

dents at the university with the help of a blog as

a digital tool promotes cooperation, understanding,

tolerance and benevolence, enables the implemen-

tation of personally oriented learning. Given that

the mentioned communication in the blog is imple-

mented mainly in the conditions of cooperative learn-

ing, when each student contributes to joint achieve-

ments, it is worth considering the availability of the

necessary technical equipment and the availability of

digital tools and services.

Their selection was based on the following re-

quirements for the implementation of communication

between teachers and students:

1) understanding that the collective way of organiz-

ing learning, joint educational activity is an effec-

tive form of the educational process;

2) creation of conditions for group interaction;

3) activation of independent assimilation of educa-

tional material in the course of subject-subject di-

alogue;

4) processing of educational information in different

forms and at different levels of complexity;

5) mandatory reﬂexive activity in the process of

group work.

To ﬁnd out if blog as a form of communication

meets the needs of society, the service Blogger was

chosen. Because many people are users of Google

Mail, which allows free access to all of Google’s

cloud applications. “Blogger is a leader in the means

of publishing materials on the Internet – the creation

of so-called web blogs or blogs” (Pyatak, 2012). Sci-

entiﬁc papers provide various deﬁnitions of this ser-

vice, for example, the most succinct of which is the

deﬁnition that “Blogger is a website whose main con-

tent is recordings, images or multimedia that are reg-

ularly added” (Alekseienko and Usata, 2019). Py-

atak (Pyatak, 2012) gives a more detailed deﬁnition:

“Blogger is a blogging platform, formerly known as

Pyra Labs, which Google acquired in February 2003,

a web tool that allows you to quickly and easily post

messages on the Web”.

After analyzing and summarizing the deﬁnitions

offered by scientists, the following deﬁnition was de-

rived: Blogger is a free blogging service that allows

you to freely blog, meet and communicate with new

people without resorting to programming and without

worrying about installing and conﬁguring software.

The blog creation algorithm is easily accessible to

most PC users, as “there is no need to create program

code or install any server software or scripts” (Pyatak,

2012), as the process involves three important steps to

start ﬁlling your blog: “Choose a proﬁle, name a blog,

choose a template, then the user will be given a do-

main like name.blogspot.com” (Bondarchuk, 2013).

Posting a blog post is done by ﬁlling out a simple

form on the Blogger cloud site. An important fea-

ture of Blogger is“freedom of speech”, because cen-

sorship contradicts the concept of this service. Bon-

darchuk et al. (Bondarchuk et al., 2020) also noted

an interesting detail that “Blogger, as a division of

Google, allows you to place Google Adsense ad units

and thus earn money from trafﬁc (which is impossible

in LJ). Also, the service is fully compatible with other

Google products – Picasa Web Albums, Google Data

API support, supports drag and drop when setting up

the page”.

Systematic and long-term work with Blogger ser-

vice allows analyzing its advantages and disadvan-

tages. The study focused on aspects such as acces-

sibility, administration, appearance, functionality and

interaction of the blog with other platforms. The

Blogger cloud service allows one user to create sev-

eral blogs at the same time (about a hundred for one

user), which, in turn, indicates a number of additional

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beneﬁts: a wider range of problems coverage; mutual

advertising between blogs; more audience coverage.

Instead, the service has an imperfect procedure for

moving ﬁles between blogs, as it is not possible to

share images.

The next attractive aspect of using Blogger is its

accessibility and that it is free: its construction is as

simple as possible, so any PC user can manage and

populate the blog, and the usage policy provides free

access to Google Account holders.

A signiﬁcant bonus for users is the ability to share

one blog. This allows the team of authors to co-create

content and maintain the collaboration. Users share

many services, and it is Blogger that can allow a niche

to be hosted by several people. However, even this

advantage does not extend the range of available fea-

tures. The toolkit offered in the free version is a tem-

plate and cannot be expanded, but the number of de-

signs is sufﬁcient to create an original blog. A pre-

view feature is also available.

Another important feature is backup: all users can

save their own data and thus secure it. This option is

possible because Blogger is a subsidiary of Google.

However, this can be seen as a disadvantage of this

service. Google bought Blogger in the early 2000s,

and during that time the site has been advanced and

improved, but the company has not released an update

recently and seems to be shutting down the service (as

has happened with Google Reader, AdSense).

When creating its own blog, the user should un-

derstand that a company that provides a free ser-

vice may suddenly terminate it or switch to paid

mode. However, the cooperation of the cloud ser-

vice with such a large corporation provides several

nice bonuses, free subscriptions among them. In ad-

dition, the service distributes news, adds a blog to the

newsletter, shows a panel and a chart of visits. The

site is actively promoted in the Google search engine.

The author can add his blog to the search engine and

thus facilitate the promotion process and avoid prob-

lems associated with indexing new pages. Plus for

users – all those who are already registered in the

system and have a Google account can subscribe to

a blog.

So, the Blogger cloud service is the best platform

for those who want to start promoting their own blog.

Despite the limited number of templates, the service

has enough tools to implement own ideas. In addition,

working with Google provides the site with a num-

ber of features: availability, backup feature, access to

other services, etc. So, the site is easy to use, which

deserves its audience.

4.2 Development of a Blog of the

University Structural Unit

In order to implement communication between teach-

ers and students with the help of a blog, we have high-

lighted a number of approaches to ensuring this com-

munication.

The systematic approach. It ensures the in-

tegrity, unity and interconnectedness of communica-

tion between teachers and students. The value of the

mentioned approach is that it allows you to outline

the communicative process as a unity of theory and

practice, goals, tasks, forms and methods, etc.

The systematic approach makes it possible to con-

sider the use of blogs in the learning process from the

point of view of integrity, mutual enrichment, and in-

terdependence.

The competency-based approach is one of the

leading in the modern educational process, the most

relevant in the modern paradigm of education, deﬁnes

the list of competencies of teachers and students to

ensure communication.

The activity approach is aimed at developing the

skills of using blogs for communicative interaction.

The educational process is based on the internal mo-

tives of the speciﬁed activity, which allows it to be

perceived as personally meaningful.

This approach promotes the development of re-

search skills, initiative, and the disclosure of creative

potential. This will contribute to the formation of a

valuable attitude to the use of blogs in the communi-

cation process.

The personally-oriented approach. It directs the

teacher to take into account the individuality, original-

ity and uniqueness of students on the basis of univer-

sal human values. The attitude towards them is im-

plemented in the context of existing features, interests

and abilities.

The mentioned approach resonates with the

student-centered approach, which involves:

• encouraging students of higher education to play

the role of autonomous and responsible subjects

of the educational process;

• creation of an educational environment focused

on meeting the needs and interests of higher edu-

cation seekers, in particular, providing opportuni-

ties for the formation of an individual educational

trajectory;

• construction of the educational process on the ba-

sis of mutual respect and partnership between the

participants of the educational process.

The environmental approach makes it possible

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to create special conditions and organize the educa-

tional process due to their impact on students.

We believe that the approaches that we have out-

lined are integrated, complemented and speciﬁed by

the environmental approach, as they are implemented

within the educational environment as an important

lever of using blogs to implement communication.

The axiological (value) approach, which is

based on the concept of value and makes it possible

to ﬁnd out the qualities and properties of objects, phe-

nomena, processes capable of satisfying certain needs

of an individual or society. Such needs appear in the

form of norms and ideals. The subject of pedagogical

axiology is the process of forming a system of values,

value attitudes of an individual.

The cultural approach is important for the for-

mation of prognostic competence of future bache-

lors of computer sciences, as it involves purpose-

ful consideration of cultural heritage, human values,

provides opportunities for personal and professional

growth, development of their creative potential. In

this context, it resonates with a creative approach that

enables the use of non-standard teaching methods in

the process of professional training.

The process of communication between teachers

and students using a digital blog follows the following

patterns:

• correspondence of the content, forms, methods

and means of using blogs to the demands of real

practice;

• unity of purpose and results of the process of

using blogs to ensure communication between

teachers and students;

• orientation in education to material and technical

resources, including availability of high-speed In-

ternet;

• the intensity of feedback between teachers and

students as a guarantee of the process of using

blogs in communication.

We will also outline the principles (system-

forming factors (requirements and rules)).

The principle of scientiﬁcity and interdisci-

plinarity, which makes it possible to take into ac-

count in the process of using digital blogs for the com-

munication of modern scientiﬁc theories, concepts

and views.

The principle of continuity and perspective. We

believe that the use of blogs in education should

be experience-oriented, continuous, step-by-step, and

outline the prospects for student growth. In addi-

tion, take into account individual characteristics of

students, focus on creative development, disclosure

and realization of potential opportunities, enrichment

of subjective experience.

The principle of focusing on digital technolo-

gies, which involves the systematic use of open ed-

ucational resources, computer and multimedia tools,

software, mobile devices, etc.

The principle of reﬂexivity, which prompts

teachers and students to analyze and correct the pro-

cess of using digital blogs.

The principle of culturology. The implementa-

tion of communication between teachers and students

is based on the recognition of such activity as the

highest value, the ability to realize the personality in

professional life.

Analysis of the needs and desires of students and

teachers of the Institute of Philology of the Borys

Grinchenko Kyiv University has become decisive in

choosing the topic of the blog, which is implemented

within the research of the Blogger service. The sur-

vey showed that potential readers would be most in-

terested in reading the news of the Institute of Philol-

ogy. To implement the study, a number of stages were

performed: from the formulation of the title and the

choice of design to the content of the blog.

Stage 1. Formulation of the title. When choos-

ing the name of the blog, we were guided by three,

in our opinion, the most important features – accessi-

bility, functionality and content. That’s why the blog

was named “Students IF”.

The chosen title of the blog should be clear to the

readers on whom it is aimed and easy to remember,

as this will increase the audience. Second, Latin let-

ters were used in the title, as it signiﬁcantly expand

the boundaries of the target audience and the possi-

bility of its use to promote the blog. Regarding the

third feature, the content and informativeness of the

blog name is important. The title should evoke in the

recipient a wide range of associative and give the op-

portunity to predict its thematic direction, so readers

immediately understand whether this blog is in their

area of interest.

Stage 2. Choosing a design. Blogger service

can only use standard templates, which are quite lim-

ited: a few options for posting, choosing colors, set-

ting your own main photo blog. To design the overall

look of the blog, a typical model № 1 was chosen, as

it is the most convenient to use: the news is arranged

in chronological order, i.e. from current to the oldest

(ﬁgure 1).

As for colors, the choice was due to two fac-

tors. First, the Grinchenko University has an ap-

proved Brand Book, which sets out recommendations

for the use of corporate identity, it regulates the cor-

porate colors of educational units, in particular, the

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Figure 1: Typical model № 1 cloud service Blogger.

Institute of Philology has a green color. Another im-

portant factor is the recognizability of philologists by

color, which is caused by the active promotion of cor-

porate products, the availability of appropriate design

corridors of the educational unit, the use of different

shades of green when preparing additional materials

for the educational process (ﬁgure 1). The third fea-

ture of the Blogger service is that you can choose the

main photo, which will meaningfully complement the

name of the blog.

In our opinion, the logo of the Student Self-

Government Council correlates most accurately with

the name of the “Students IF” channel (ﬁgure 2). It

reﬂects the most important values of a student of the

Institute of Philology: a book, sleep, Wi-Fi and cof-

fee – an associative series of words that are necessary

for the full existence of each student. The introduc-

tion of common values evokes emotions in all those

involved in the educational process, which increases

the likelihood of their involvement in the readers of

the blog.

Stage 3. Selection of topics. The content plan

of the blog “Students IF” was developed based on the

results of the survey (ﬁgure 3) and contains four main

thematic areas.

According to the results of the survey, the most

interesting to readers (75.9%) is information about

events in different directions of Kyiv and Ukraine –

the ﬁrst thematic block. Coverage of such news

will help raise awareness and active involvement of

student youth in events of various levels (city, na-

Figure 2: Logo of the Student Self-Government Council

of the Institute of Philology of the Borys Grinchenko Kyiv

University.

tional, international), which, in turn, will strengthen

existing partnerships with the Ministry of Education

and Science of Ukraine, National Agency for Qual-

ity Assurance in Higher Education, Kyiv City State

Administration and youth public organizations (PO

“Ukrainian Student Association”, “Foundation for

Regional Initiatives”, “Ukrainian Academy of Lead-

ership”).

The second most popular was the thematic area

related to the events of active student life of the Insti-

tute of Philology (71.3%). Over 100 events are held at

Borys University in Kyiv every month: educational-

professional, scientiﬁc, volunteer, entertaining, etc.

So informing the participants of the educational pro-

cess will positively affect the involvement of students

in events they can choose depending on their interests.

Another important aspect of interest to potential

users of the blog “Students IF” is related to changes in

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Figure 3: Content of the blog “Students IF”.

the organization of the educational process (60.2%) –

changes in the schedule, the transition to distance

learning, urgent headmaster and more. Today’s stu-

dents are active Internet users, so blogging in this di-

rection is more effective because it covers a larger

number of students, and the dissemination of infor-

mation requires much less time and effort.

The fourth thematic block is the current state of

science and the place of students in it (33.3%). Sci-

ence is an integral part of the educational process, so

the coverage of scientiﬁc events and the results of

such events (conferences, round tables, workshops,

webinars, lectures, etc.) will expand the circle of

stakeholders and motivate them to start a scientiﬁc ca-

reer.

Stage 4. Determining the frequency of publi-

cations. The survey showed that the majority of po-

tential readers (72.2%) believe that placing publica-

tions in the blog “Students IF” should depend on the

availability of news, as certain time periods are rich in

events, so we consider it best to disseminate informa-

tion in the order of its receipt (ﬁgure 4).

Stage 5. Deﬁning the target audience. Among

potential readers of “Students IF”, which is the fo-

cus of the blog, can be divided into three major

groups: students, research and teaching staff and en-

trants. First, the content of this information chan-

nel is interesting for students because it is a means

of one-way communication between the educational

unit and students. Second, the blog is useful for the

research and pedagogical staff of Grinchenko Univer-

sity, where they get to know the students better, which

allows them to build the best individual educational

trajectory for applicants. The third and most numer-

ous group are potential applicants. The “Students IF”

blog, a so-called university life diary, is a powerful

career guidance tool.

Stage 6. Building a scheme of blogging strat-

egy. During the implementation of research and work

with the cloud service Blogger, considering all its

advantages and disadvantages, we have developed a

scheme that contains step-by-step instructions for cre-

ating your own blog (ﬁgure 5).

As a result of working with the Blogger cloud ser-

vice, students should:

• know: practical methods and methods of build-

ing blogs; methods of organizing activities for

working with blogs; modern development trends,

methods of creating blogs;

• be able to: work with software tools for solving

tasks related to creating blogs; apply the acquired

knowledge when solving actual problems of the-

ory and practice, making forecasts and compre-

hensive assessments;

• have: practical skills of working with the Blog-

ger cloud service; practical experience of drafting

review reports, descriptions of the development of

situations and assessment of trends in the develop-

ment of activities related to the creation of blogs.

Stage 7. Approbation. The relevance and

demand for the blog “Students IF” was tested

among students of the Institute of Philology of the

Grinchenko University (ﬁgure 6). To determine the

level of communication with users of the “Students

IF” blog, a survey was published on the format of

study in the second semester, which was attended by

over 1500 readers, which testiﬁes to the relevance

of this blog and its further development. Analy-

sis of students’ responses showed that the majority

(68.2%) want to resume full-time study in the second

semester, but 22.7% of these applicants are convinced

that lectures should be left online. Some respondents

(31.8%) prefer distance learning. The results of the

survey were passed on to the administration of the

educational unit and can serve as one of the key ar-

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Figure 4: Frequency of publications in blog.

guments when deciding on the format of education in

the future.

The results of the survey showed that contact with

the applicants was established, so it was decided to go

beyond the structural unit. To interest a wider range

of readers, content has been expanded. The blog has

publications that apply to applicants for various spe-

cialties. The expansion of the topic contributed to

the rapid growth of the audience. Today, our read-

ers include representatives of all departments of the

university. The analysis of the audience showed that

the content is interesting to applicants for various spe-

cialties.

Increased activity on the “Students IF” blog was

the impetus for the launch of the Blogger cloud ser-

vice in the educational process. First of all, we tested

this service on the educational program “Ukrainian

Language and Literature”, during the implementation

of the mandatory component “Methods of teaching

linguistic disciplines”. The task was to create and ﬁll

the teacher’s educational blog as one of the ways to

present theoretical information.

During the internship, undergraduate students (11

persons) had the opportunity to test their blogs on stu-

dents of 1–2 courses of the Institute of Philology. Ap-

plicants were divided into two groups: one submitted

part of the theoretical material through the cloud ser-

vice Blogger (experimental group), another used tra-

ditional methods (control group).

Examples of using the Blogger service in the edu-

cational process are shown in ﬁgure 7.

We consider the study successful if, according to

the results of the test, students received grades A, B,

C (at least 75 out of 100 points), see table 1.

Table 1: Comparison of control and experimental group.

Control Experimental

group group

Number of students 15 (62%) 18 (78%)

who received grades

A, B, C

Number of students 9 (38%) 5 (22%)

who received other

grades

Using Fisher’s test, it is established that

ϕ∗

emp

= 2.489, ϕ∗

(

1.64 p ≤ 0.05

2.31 p ≤ 0.01,

therefore, hypothesis H1 accepted, the difference in

the learning outcomes of the experimental and control

groups is statistically proven.

The functioning of the “Students IF” blog for 3

months was productive and effective. This is con-

ﬁrmed by the analysis of the involvement of appli-

cants at the beginning of the school year and after a

few months from the launch of the blog (ﬁgure 8).

Looking at the chart, we see that the ﬁgures have in-

creased signiﬁcantly. We are convinced that the fur-

ther systematic work of the blog “Students IF” will

have a positive impact on the formation of a conscious

and active student movement.

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Figure 5: Scheme of blog creation in the cloud service Blogger.

Figure 6: Format of study in the second semester.

It is interesting that as a result of the survey of

teachers, the types of various educational activities of

students, within which it is possible to develop edu-

cational blogs with the help of cloud services, were

summarized:

• an interdisciplinary practical session, which is

conducted by teachers of various educational dis-

ciplines with the aim of realizing interdisciplinary

connections;

• analytical workshop where professional situations

are worked out;

• a webinar-conference where students present re-

ports on given topics with further discussion;

• workshop-discussion;

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Figure 7: An example of using a blog during the educational

process.

Figure 8: Statistics of applicants’ participation in various

directions events.

• research practicum, which involves the imple-

mentation of research-oriented training;

• a business game that simulates a real problem sit-

uation;

• practicum – “brainstorming”, students are offered

a case in advance, then students offer options for

solving the problem with further discussion and

selection of the most effective proposal;

• workshop – a master class from stakeholder rep-

resentatives;

• practicum – meeting with graduates of the educa-

tional and professional program.

The main areas of implementation of research-

based education and enabling the creation of research-

themed blogs are also highlighted:

1. Work of students in scientiﬁc laboratories, cen-

ters, problem scientiﬁc groups and other scientiﬁc

associations.

2. Individual research work of students.

3. Studying the theoretical foundations of setting,

methodology, organization and execution of sci-

entiﬁc research, planning and organization of a

scientiﬁc experiment, processing of scientiﬁc data

within the framework of specialized courses in-

cluded in the OPP.

4. Independent scientiﬁc research carried out during

informal education (taking courses on open online

platforms).

5. Carrying out tasks of a research nature, laboratory

works, coursework, projects that contain elements

of scientiﬁc research or are of a research nature.

Methodical development of the implementation of

educational activities and research work of students,

which involves the creation of blogs using cloud ser-

vices, will become the perspective of our further re-

search.

5 CONCLUSIONS

The study conﬁrmed the relevance and feasibility of

using the Blogger cloud service for communication

between teachers and students at the university.

1. Analysis of deﬁnitions of “blog” and “Blogger”

gave grounds to formulate own deﬁnition, which

shows the functionality of these terms. The ad-

vantages and disadvantages of the Blogger cloud

service have been identiﬁed. Among the advan-

tages are the following: one user can have several

blogs, page ﬁlling and management can be done

by several authors; a number of additional oppor-

tunities that open up through collaboration with

Google, etc. Disadvantages include the limited

number of design templates and tools.

2. Having found out the desires and needs of poten-

tial readers through a survey, the stages of creating

a blog using the cloud service Blogger were iden-

tiﬁed, which meets the needs of users and helps

to raise awareness of higher education students

about the organization of the educational process

and active student life. A blogging scheme has

been developed in the Blogger cloud service. It

was announced that the results of the study are

more applied than theoretical.

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3. Successful approbation of the blog “Students IF”

among students of the Institute of Philology of

Grinchenko University was conﬁrmed by Fisher’s

test. This shows that Blogger is the optimal plat-

form for organizing training, quality communica-

tion of higher education institutions with appli-

cants. The blog also helps to improve the level of

information and consideration of students’ opin-

ions, serves as a platform for discussions, consul-

tations, etc.

Prospects for further research we seen in the de-

velopment of methodological recommendations for

the use of the Blogger cloud service in implementing

practical classes at the university.

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