Thing #4

Blogging is a new form of communication. Many blogs are diaries or logs of happenings in one's life. When the comments are added to the post, it resembles the responses to an editorial in the newspaper.

Blogging can be used for almost anything. One blog I read was used to communicate the trials and tribulations of gutting a home a rebuilding it complete with before and after pictures and a commentary of all the steps and surprises from start to finish.

From an educational standpoint, blogging can be used to facilitate homework, to communicate with parents, to create diversity with writing in the classroom, and to communicate problems and enlist the help of others in solving those problems.

If I were teaching literature, blogging would be an integral part of students' communicating their understanding of the concepts in the reading and for having my students communicate with each other by sharing their ideas through blog comments.