Get Your students Blogging

Having students blog in the classroom would be a great way to enhance project based learning by adding another dimension to the classroom. In my future classroom I would like to use blogs instead of traditional journals. By doing this students would have something that is their own and would be able to share it with others including family and friends. Blogs would also benefit students who are linguistic learners, visual learners, and interpersonal learners which gives these students more of an opportunity  to be successful. Blogs allow students freedom and power.

Since teachers can  have access to their students blogs teachers would be able to have an online portfolio for each student. This eliminates papers getting misplaced and student's work getting overlooked. Blogs can be used in all subjects. Students can journal in a blog and comment on other students blogs. Students can also do case studies on Social Studies issues or even blog as if they are writing from a particular time period (Great depression, Civil war). Students can also record their finding daily or weekly on a certain science experiment. Through these different avenues blogs become an essential part of project and inquiry based learning.

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