03.11.08
Educational Blogging
From reading the article on educational blogging, the use of blogs within the classroom became a viable prospect. After all, the benefits the students and teachers gain, expressed by the article, seem too advantageous to not incorporate blogging in the classroom. The opportunity of using the internet and blogging to present your ideas to the world is one that most students would seize, it being a novel alternative to writing in their exercise books. The article is determined to promote the use of blogging and rightly so. It is a valuable tool with numerous benefits that many attest to. Using blogging as an educational tool acts as a motivating factor in getting students to want to read and write, and after all what teacher doesn’t want their students to enjoy reading and writing? But is it really pragmatic to assume that all the students’ hesitations towards classroom literacy to be solved by incorporating educational blogging within the classroom?
