Why blog?

With blogs being such a new concept for education, many teachers find themselves wondering "Why should I implement blogging in my instruction?" or "How will blogging benefit me and my students?" Below are a few ideas for implementing blogging in your classroom:

• Reflective writing for all subject areas.This could be reflection over readings in class, assignments, group projects, or anything else pertaining to your curriculum
• Review of content skills
• Have students post one thing they know about the civil war, or reducing fractions, or photosynthesis, or persuasive writing.
• Online journals - You know, instead of hauling around all of those spiral notebooks!