In the Classroom, Web Logs Are the New Bulletin Boards

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/19/technology/circuits/19blog.html?pagewanted=2&ei=5090&en=33627811ca310596&ex=1250568000

My article this week comes from the New York Times website. The article dicusses how blogs are now beening used in several classrooms across the country. Blogs are being used by students and teacher even in classroms as young as the second grade. Blogs make it easier for teachers to interact with students and it also makes it easier for students to communicate with other students. Mrs. Dudiak, a secind grade teacher, had her students use their blogs to discuss the feild trip they had just gone on. She said that grading blogs and seeing what the students thought was much easier this way, she didn't have to sit and read a stack of trip journals.

Blogging in the classroom has some positive and negative sides though. On the positive side teacher say that student who are normally shy come to life on line, they also allow students to carry in dicusion that they may not have finished in class. Blog are also easy to maintain for teachers and students. But on the down side do blog encourage bad habits such as bad grammer and punctuation.

I think blogging in the classroom is a great idea. Blogs make it easier for students and teachers to interact. With blogs parents could also check to see what their students are learning and should be working on. Teacher could give students feedback at anytime.