Benefits of Educational Blogging

Blogs are a great way for teachers to connect with their students parents. They can go online to the blog at anytime and see what their child's class has been working on lately. Teachers can post about upcoming dates and important things the parents need to know. It's a more efficient way than sending home a load of papers in a kids backpack, as long as the parents have access to the blog via phone, iPad, or computer, which most do. Blogs also give a sense of classroom community as well as teaching internet safety. Students can work on their individual bogs to increase their literacy/writing skills, and the work they create can easily be seen by their parents or relatives. Students get to write to 'publish' not just write something that is seen by their teacher and forgotten. Students can make global connections with other students in a safe environment. As long as students have access at home they can continue to blog and work on their assignments/projects. Blog may become to some students like on online journal of sorts, a comfort.