Friday, November 20, 2009

Why use a blog?

Why would anyone want to use something so 'funny' to say...blog. Surely not in education...and definitely not in Reading/writing. WHAT?!?!

Educational Benefits of Blogs:
In addition to providing teachers with an excellent tool for communicating with students, there are numerous educational benefits of blogs.

Blogs are:
- motivating to students, especially those who otherwise might not become participants in classrooms
- excellent opportunities for students to read and write.
- effective forums for collaboration and discussion.
- powerful tools to enable scaffolded learning or mentoring to occur.

* this information was used from Teaching Today - click here to read more.

Follow this link to check out Teachers First's resources on blogs

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