Blog on Blogging

Danielle Knight.

Blogging is very useful for many purposes, including journals and educational purposes. For educational purposes, blogs are meant for students to learn and discuss about educational topics with teachers and other students in their class. Journals is a general sense of how blogs used in the world. These educational blogs allows the students to express their thoughts about a topic they were talking about in class. It can also be a place where students can ask their teacher questions on homework or to discuss an assignment with other students. However, there are negative side-effects to blogging. These side-effects include blogs being time-consuming, they tend to be public unless you set it to private, and they encourage that informal writing style we see in texting and instant messaging. So, blogging has its good sides, and its bad sides. I would definitely use it in my classroom to discuss homework and classwork assignments and to talk about books that we read and have read in class and outside of the classroom. But, I will have some set ground rules for blogging. 1. The students have to set the blog to private so only the teacher, other student the class, and parents can see it. 2. The student have to use a little more formal writing style. So, blogs can be useful when used properly, but they can be a hassel to maintain.