Blogs

Blogging has been an interesting experience for me. I never thought that learning about blogs and how to post them would ever do me any good in the educational field. After learning about blogs in my EDM-310 class, I have posted many of them and so have my classmates. I have recently viewed the blog posts of one of my classmates. After comparing our experiences with blogs, I have found that blogs in a classroom have advantages and disadvantages.

The advantages of blogging in the classroom are those that really help everyone involved with education. Teachers use their classroom blog pages to post communications to parents and students. These communications can be picture and report postings that keep them up-to-date on what's going on in the classroom. Teachers post about upcoming events or past school events as announcements along with pictures to draw interest of parents to come along as chaperones. The class can also communicate with other classrooms in different areas of the world.

Teachers use their blog pages as educational tools as well. They post weekly homework assignments for students and parents to view. Students can also find an extra study guide that can be used to study for an exam. Teachers also post test preparation activities that students can use as practice. They also post links to extra resources that students can use for help in a specific subject area that the class is working on.

The disadvantage to blogging in the classroom is simple. It's the Internet itself. Everyone knows how hard it is to maintain appropriate web pages that they have designed. Basically, teachers have to take the time to thoroughly screen any content they plan to add to their blog page. Otherwise they can end up with information that is far from what they intended to add as educational content.