What do you see as the educational value of blogs in the classroom? How about outside of the classroom? What role should teacher and students have in a blogging experience? In your view, and based on this experience, how can blogs be integrated appropriately and effectively in K-12 classrooms? Please provide concrete ideas and examples.
Blogs provide opportunities to collaborate and learn from people all over the world. Experts blog! What better place to learn than from the experts who blog about your interests! Blogging also allows you to share your thoughts about a subject/topic and then have others comment on your thoughts. Teachers can encourage students to blog. The blog can be used as an electronic journal for your students. The great thing about blogs is the input from others allows you to expand or modify your ideas, then blog again. I would like to use blogs in my classroom (my system blocks blogs) for students to be able to share their poetry and writing. I believe students would work harder to produce more interesting work if they knew that their product is available for everyone to read. There's something about having an audience that helps ignite those creative fires. Blogging in the classroom could be a very valuable tool.
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