Classroom Use

Never having used a blog before, I think they could be extremely useful in the classroom. Not only can you use blogs to give information to students but also to parents. It is a great tool to keep everyone informed of what is happening and what the students are learning in the classroom. It can be used for teachers to post instructional videos, that way if students are struggling with a topic, when they are doing homework they can have a video showing how to do it again. Using blogs could be a great way to get students using the computer to do book suggestions, where if you have a book that you really loved, you can post on the blog about why the other students should read it. Another way students could use it, is as a sort of peer review. If the students are working on a writing assignment they can consult with each other and make comments on each others work, so you can have more class time for other parts of writing, and all students can make suggestions, not just the ones that the document have been shared with.