Educational Uses for Blog
As an educator I'm always looking for ways to improve some of the tools I use daily for teaching, or helping my students to complete some basic but difficult projects, how to better teach a standard when more than 50% of my students didn't get it the first time or even how parents can share their thoughts or comments when they don't know how to say it personal or the thought of being embarrassed of what they might want to know or don't understand about a standard. I can keep going but the point I want to make is, blogging can be very useful in education. Teaching 5Th grade students how to blog is an excellent tool for writing. I find my students very reluctant when it comes to writing. I think blogging can be used as a motivator when it comes to writing in the classroom.
"In education blogs can serve at least four basic functions:
- Classroom management serves as a protal to foster a community of learners.
- Collaboration helpful link between teacher and student to help further develop writing with the advantage of a instant audience.
- Discussions can be uses as a tool for students to communite and share with each other outside the classroom.
- Student Portfolio's a way to communicate and post student work in a digital form.
Blogging in the classroom offers an equal opportunity for all to share thoughts and opinions (Thanh Nguyen, 2006).
