incorporating blogs in the classroom

Using blogs in the classroom is a very helpful tool. It can be used in many ways in the classroom. You can post homework assignments and grades online. You can have the students communicate with other students, either in the class, in another class, in another school or a different state. You can give the students an assignment online and have them blog about something they read or an assignment they had to complete. You can also use this to communicate with parents by posting their childs success and let them blog about it.

Some advantages of using blogs in the classroom is that it minimizes paper work for the teachers, it gives the students the chance to use technology and communicate with eachother and the teacher through the internet. Another advantage is having communication with parents. Students can also blog about assignments that they had, which gives feedback to the teacher. The teacher can then change the assignments accordingly.

Some disadvantages of blogging in the classroom is that some students will take advantage of the privelege. Some classrooms and schools may not have enough money to purchase computers for all the students. Students may not have computers at home to complete the assignments. But overall blogging is a very efficient classroom tool.