Blog on Blogging - Polly Grooms

Blogs are becoming a mainstream and useful tool in the world of education. Blogs give students a way of communicating with people all over the world. This is important because it would help students be able to see different views and opinions on a variety of topics in a different way than they might see it. This would open their eyes up to many things that they may have never thought about before. Blogs also give students the opportunity for them to share the work they have done. Students would also be able to benefit by being able to see the work of others as well. Because computers can be a fun way for students to learn, blogs could motivate students to do their homework because it is something new and exciting.
Not only do blogs benefit students, but they benefit teachers as well. Blogs are a great way for teachers to post assignments, communicate with their students, and keep parents informed through news letters. Blogs also give teachers access to communicate with other teachers. A teacher could find a great lesson plan from another teacher's blog and use it in their own classroom. As a future teacher, I plan on using blogs in my own classroom. I think that it would be fun to do a reading blog, and have the students write their thoughts and feelings on the assigned reading. Everyone interprets writing in a different way, so through blogs kids would be able to see what their peers' thoughts were as well.