Blogs

Give some specific ideas of how you could incorporate blogs in your classroom. What are the advantgaes and disadvantages to using this technology in your classroom?

Blogs are a good way to get students engaged in classroom discussions without having to speak in the classroom. Blogs can be used as a daily homework assignment on how you feel on a specific issue, much like we are doing right now. It is hard for some students to speak up in the classroom and say how they feel on a certain issue. But it can be much easier for them to type it out on the computer and save them the embarassment they may feel with speaking in front of their classmates. Some children have really great ideas and I feel that through a blog, both the students and teacher can see the different perspectives of the students. However the disadvantage is that students may not read all of the blogs of the students. They may just type up their perspectice and then log off, without taking into account the blogs of other students. Also not all the blogs of the students may be up when the student posts theirs, and they most likely will not want to keep going back on and checking to see when all the blogs are posted to read.