What I Learned About Blogs and the Classroom

I chose to read Keller Leathers' blog. Keller sits next to me in class and did an excellent job with her blog. She covered all her topics with enthusiasm and detail, and made excellent points. Her blog is informative and educational. She has created a great blog and has obviously learned much during her time in our micro computing class.
Blogging is an excellent tool that one can use to get things out on the web so that anyone can see. Most people think of blogging as something used by people to tell the whole world their about their lives and their beliefs. They are not likely to think of them as being useful to the classroom, I know I never would have before this class. But blogs can be used in the classroom, quite possibly they could be used successfully.
Blogs can be used as a type of online journal for students. A teacher can assign a journal project to his or her student so that they can work on their English skills and creativeness. Also a child will be more conscientious about what his or her work reads like if they know anyone and everyone in the world can read it. Blogs can also be useful in monitoring how the students in a class are treating one another. The tone of the writings can give insight to an existing problem between some of the students so that the teacher can fix them.
Blogs tell about a person while at the same time allowing that person to share information with others. They can be very useful in education if used. The teachers and the students could have a real enjoyable time using it to learn. I am glad that we learned about it in class, and I hope to use it with my future classes.