Educational Uses for Blogs

      The idea of learning how to blog is something I have limited experience in using myself.  I feel that Blogs are a simple and fast way to share information to a wide range of people at one time.  Therefore, I feel that the first great educational use for blogging, is to convey and provide information from teacher to students.  Teachers can use blogging to provide information for resources for students to complete homework assignments, and post tutorials for students to learn how to utilize new types of technology tools.  This is important as students will be expected to be up to speed with technology, as the job market will demand our future students to utilize technology.  For example, teachers can provide links to self tutorials on their blog spot for students on how to use comic level or second life.

     Secondly, blogging can be a way for teachers to allow students to have discussions and collaborate with one another to complete an assignment.  For example, students can use blogging in literature class.  In literature class, students can help each other discover hidden meanings or main ideas of story lines by blogging to one another other on what they interpreted to be the main idea of a story.  

     Lastly, I think blogging can be used for students to post resources and websites that they found useful when helping them complete homework assignments or class projects.  For example, a students can blog on a great educational website they found when researching an answer to a homework assignment.  Thus, this would allow other students to discover a valuable tool to tape into when completing their assignment.

     To sum it up, I think the main use of blogging is to provide to ability for students to share, discuss and embark on more knowledge then the would be working in isolation. I think all my educational uses, I thought of for blogging, center around this main overarching theme.