Blogging in the Classroom

Creating a blog for my future classroom is something I hadn’t really considered before. Why you ask? It seemed like an extra thing that might only be viewed by me and would take up some of my valuable teaching time. I see things differently now. Although I do feel it will be time consuming, it seems like such a valuable tool for myself to connect with other teachers, share things with my students and their parents and provide an outlet for my students to interact with material and each other as frequently or infrequently as we see fit. I feel that there is great value in allowing my students a channel to share their personal stories, feelings on a topic, or even just a place to document their learning. Initially, the blog may feel like a trivial assignment that they and I dread doing. But I truly feel it will become natural to want to blog and will be a common connection my students and I will be able to share. There are so many more ways to communicate through blogs than just the typical Word or Google documents that we usually require our students to submit. Blogs are public, and that requires a higher level of writing and editing. Our students will be pushed to excel! The uses for blogs in the classroom really are what you make it: a place to journal, a post to link assignments to, a way to connect with other educators, etc.