Blogs in the Classroom

In my future classroom, I can envision my students using blogs in almost all subjects. I'll start with math. The students can start a blog that is solely designated to math. As long as the students post is related to math this blog can be used. They could use it for helpful tips they found or they could help each other with difficult problems. For Language Arts, students could respond to a class book, or an individual book they read. They can talk about books they liked, or maybe even ones they didn't. They can even posts questions about grammar. For science, maybe an assignment on introductions to writing a lab report. Students will have to conduct an experiment and discuss it in a blog following certain criteria. Social Studies, students can talk about their favorite historical figure, and provide research and interesting facts on that figure.

So much can be done, I can see blogging as a great way, or maybe even an outlet for students to be able express themselves more through their learning. Blogs are also great to connect students interculturally. As mentioned in the following link (http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/), most students are comfortable with blogging already. "It's part of their culture". So allowing them to use tools that they are familiar with, especially in the classroom gives the student a huge advantage.