Why should we use blogs in the classroom?

There are numerous educational benefits of blogs. Blogs are:

§  Highly 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 scaffolding learning or mentoring to occur.

The use of blogs in education

Blog is a type of new technology; it can be use in classroom environment for diary entry. It also can be a useful tool to link communication between study groups within a class or other classes or even schools. If use effectively, blogs can create a learning environment that extend beyond the schoolyard.

Moreover , blogs provide a communication space that teachers can utilise with students whenever there is a curriculum need to develop writing, share ideas and reflect on work being undertaken in the classroom.