Blogs (short for web logs) are internet websites where people can write entries about anything they want. Blogs can be private, shared with only a small network of friends, or they can be visible to the entire world wide web. After posting a blog, people can read the blog and comment on it. They can respond to each other on their own blogs, and they can also become "followers" of certain blogs. With these capabilities, blogging can be very useful in the classroom.
Brenda Dyck, a teacher, shared her new experience with blogging in her article "Log On to a Blog." While teaching a unit on homelessness, Dyck created blogs for each of her students that they could use to respond to discussions and activities done during class. She found the experience to be extremely successful, as she was able to view each student's personal feedback and efficiently respond to it all online. The students brought up interesting points that she was able to use in class, and the overall learning that occurred was extremely great.
As Brenda Dyck's experience shows, blogging can be an immensely useful tool in schools. It is quick and efficient, it is clean and organized, and students are naturally attracted to it because it is a new method. I think that blogs will become much more popular as time continues, and all teachers with students old enough to use blogs should learn how to get started.
Works Cited:
Dyck, B. (2010). The online school. Log on to a blog. Retrieved March 1, 2010, from http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/voice/voice123.shtml
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