I started doing research into the ways you can incorporate blogs in the classroom by first looking into the textbook we are using for my technology class Web 2.0: new tools, new schools. It described blogs as "a set of personal commentaries on issues the author deems important. It contains texts, images, and links to related information on other blogs, Web pages, and media...in which both the bloggers and commenters exchange opinions, ideas, and attitues."(55)
The textbook also gave quite a few examples of ways teachers have used blogs in their classrooms. There were quite a few I thought were interesting. One teacher used her blog to give her students the list of homework and answers to previous homework assignments. She also used it as a way to put up the class notes, which contain the main idea learned in that particular class. Another teacher at Paine Elementary in Trussville, Alabama used a blog as a way for students to communicate and ask questions of soldiers who were fighting in the war in Iraq. (http://www.paineandthesoldiers.blogspot.com/) Other teachers have used their blogs as a discussion area where the teacher or student posts questions about the curriculum topics and let an open discussion take place. Obviously there are quite a few ways to incorporate blogs educationally into the classroom and next time I will continue my research topic with the safety issues of blogs.
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