A book chapter for New Educational Technology 1 Affordances and Innovative Uses of Weblogs for Teaching and Learning Qiyun Wang and Huay Lit Woo Learning Sciences and Technologies Academic Group, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, 1 Nanyang Walk, Singapore 637616 Tel: +65 6790 3267 Fax: +65 6896 8038 Qiyun.wang@nie.edu.sg Huaylit.woo@nie.edu.sg Wang, Q.Y., & Woo, H.L (2008). Affordances and Innovative Uses of Weblogs for Teaching and Learning. In Kobayashi, R (Ed.), New Educational Technology (pp. 183- 199). NY: Nova Science Publishers. The development of emerging technologies has resulted in a rapid increase in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools. For instance, Web 2.0, a phrase coined by O'Reilly Media in 2003, has attracted many people’s attention in recent years. Web 2.0 refers to an improved form of World Wide Web or so-called a second generation of web- based communities and hosted services. A fundamental feature of Web 2.0 is that it can deliver and allow users to control interactive applications entirely through a web-based browser. Although many ICT tools like Web 2.0 may not be initially designed for educational purposes, they have shown to possess great potential for teaching and learning in practice (Law, Yuen, & Chow, 2003). The Weblog is one of the Web 2.0 tools. It is basically a web-based tool for creating personal web pages consisting of textual information organized in a reverse chronological order. It has the most recent posting appearing at the topmost of the page and the oldest at the bottom. It provides a means for people to write personal journals or diaries in a web- based public space and it also allows readers to comment or add further information to