Why are Blogs Useful?

Blogs are useful in that teachers can use them in many different ways. Rather than a simple Google document or Word document, the students information can be accessed publicly, so the information they present in their blogs must be critically edited before it is published. There are more steps for the student to self-edit and create the best possible blog post they can make.  Blogs give students and other professionals the chance to respond to what has been written. Giving students an assignment from a blog, they are easily able to connect with you and receive a response more rapidly than waiting for the next day at school. Other students can see what has been posted and that makes the communication much stronger in the classroom. Another way blogs are so useful is they open up pathways of creativity. Students feel "in charge" of their creativeness and their responses. Blogs open up more communication than could ever be possible with a simple Word or Google Document!