Benefits of blogs in the classroom

Weblogs can extent our classroom; it connects students with others outside of school and all around the globe. Collaboration is more “accessible and even more diverse”. Students are able to create links and conduct all sorts of experiments and then share the results using a lot of different mediums. Another important aspect of blogs is it is able to store the learning that students and teachers in files. I t helps students and adults in processing their own thoughts which sometimes seems too much, and organized it so that could be written down for others to access.

Blogs also supports the different learning styles which students display. Sometimes a child may be too shy to talk in class; blogs gives them that opportunity to share their ideas by writing it down in their own space. As students realize that people are listening to them as they share their ideas they are able to overcome and participate more in class knowing that someone is listening to their views. Finally Blogs can teach students to read and write to a competent level in which they will be able to function in an “expanding information society”.