K-12 News Blog: A Blog About Usings Blogs In Class

Wow! These blogs are coming fast and furious now! Hopefully this one will not sound as hasty as my last post... In fact I might fix that... Okay done! That is one of the nice things about blogs is that you can edit your post so easily. Because of the ease of doing something like this, and the general ease of use and organization when it comes to using computers, many teachers are now using web logs, or blogs, as tools in their classrooms as well. This blog itself is part of its own classroom assignment, making this posting the most "meta" of any posting thus far. But it is no surprise why some teachers are using blogs in the classroom. Even I am thinking about doing it with my students if I am allowed, I'm just not sure how yet. A college teacher could easily use a blog for their classes, and in my own experience I have seen more college teachers use classroom blogs than K-12 teachers (though this might also be due to my age). Still the slight problems some students may have figuring out the technology seems to be out weighed by the benefits of keeping a class blog of some sort. I have included three links in the Link list that I consider testimonials to this fact. One is from TechLearning, and it describes why web logs are here to stay and some of the concerns about using a web log effectively. The another is direct feedback from a teacher who uses web logs themselves. And the final one is a web site that will give a teacher effective steps toward creating a classroom blog. These testimonials along with my own experience using a class blog have made me think of using one for one of my classes at one time; probably the best compliment of all.