Blog on blogging – Ryan H. – Assign #1C

Since the day the world-wide-web has emerged the Internet has taken us by storm, and one of the many uses it has to offer for educational purposes is blogging. For teachers, it is our virtual classroom. One can post homework assignments, video tutorials, and even podcasts to classroom blogs. The possibilities are endless, and we as educators must embrace a technology such as this to keep up with our ever technologically savvy students. Blogging puts a new twist on learning as it allows teachers, students, and parents to be fully engaged in the classroom. Blogging can even enable students that learn differently to grasp material more effectively. For example, if a dyslexic student has trouble reading, a teacher can convert text to an audio file that utilizes screen-reader software. This can then be posted onto the blog to provide an alternative format for the student to gain that information. I am all about making the Internet an immersive learning environment, and I believe that blogs help us as educators convey material onto our students more efficiently. In the classroom, I plan to use blogs to provide alternative ways into learning. For example, these can either be through video tutorials and podcasts. This would allow my students to access material and play it over again in case they do not quite get a concept that was being conveyed to them in class.