Blogs+in+the+Classroom

** Blogs are online sites where people can share ideas through writing and commenting on other people’s writings. There is an endless amount of categories of what to blog about and many sites are topic specific. Certain blogs are centered toward education, but there are many blogs out on the web that are not appropriate for the school setting. Educational blogs have a wide variety of uses for the classroom, which is shown below. **

All students are able to share and exchange opinions. || Class time is extended for the topic being discussed. || Can be used before class to prepare for a discussion that will take place. ||
 *  ** How blogs are used in education: ** ||
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 * Normally reserved students are able to share their opinion through written word. ||
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 * Not limited to post only during normal school hours. Flexibility for those with different sleep patterns. ||
 * Allows time to think about the topic before forming an opinion on the subject. ||
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 * Helps develop social and technology skills. ||
 * Discussion on blog is not like a classroom discussion where it ends in an argument between a couple of the students. ||

**// Educational Blogging //**** versus //Regular Blogging// **

1. Educational blogs offer a private environment for a specific class to complete their work, where a regular blog shows random blogs to everyone who goes on the site. 2. Educational blogs are for a specific purpose, education, whereas regular blogs can include a variety of subjects including adult content that is blocked in educational blogs. <span style="color: #4f6228; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">3. Little to no advertisements are shown on the site with educational blogs. <span style="color: #4f6228; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">4. In certain educational blogs, teachers have control over approving comments that students post and managing students’ blogs because of the control of educational blogs.

Educational Blogs: Edublog Blogger

Examples of educational blogs: 100 Blog Examples 50 Blogs from Teachers

Our opinion on blogs for the classroom:

<span style="color: #17365d; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">There are many ways in which Blogs can be used within the classroom, which make them a valuable teaching tool. It is important to go to a educational blog site when doing projects for a class because there is a lot of garbage that comes with certain types of blogs such as entertainment and sports. Those blogs which are centered for education provide an excellent way for students to discuss their opinions in a way for every student to participate and take in others opinions besides their own. It offers learning for those students who are shy because they are able to express themselves through written word and it offers learning for those students who speak out too much in the classroom without thinking because they are able to think about their thoughts before speaking them.