Get a Blog For Your Class April 10, 2009
Posted by nitwit in Uncategorized.Tags: blogs
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Blogs can be a very powerful tool in education for both teachers and students. Some teachers are using blogs in order to communicate more regularly and more effectively with their students and the parents as well. Although a class or teacher website can generally do more than just a blog, the two can work very effectively together to provide information and resources and capture feedbackfrom students and parents.
Students could also use blogs to stimulate thinking and improve their writing skills. Blogs provide a unique publication venue that is generally desirable and unavailable in the classroom.
Nebo School District has to weigh the value of blogs and other online tools with concerns for the safety of students who create and access them. For this reason, we reviewed a number of blogging options and decided to open Edublogs.org for student use at school. That means that although teachers may be able to access different blogging options, and students and parents could access them from home as well, only edublogs.org blogs will be available to students on school computers.
