Educators can use blogs for many reasons. One is to communicate with students some upcoming events or topics of study in class. Another reason to blog is to allow students a way to respond to material covered in class or even take it beyond what was covered in class.
I went to a blogging GT update this summer and I created a blog for my class. This week, in class, I am showing the students the blog site and including it in my weekly newsletter to parents so they have the opportunity to participate outside of class time.
This valuable technological tool also allows students to see that writing is important in the classroom and outside of the classroom. It shows students that when we say you must write in the real world, do math in the real world and read in the real world, these are not just words, but reality.
Blogs are also an invaluable tool for parent communication. In a world that is steep in technology, this is another tool at the hands of parents that are working more and less able to make phone calls or who have students that "forget" to give them their printed newsletter.
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