Edublogs
Market Analysis
An Overview of the Education Blogging Marketplace
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Why Use Blogs in Education
In the communication age, it has become customary for teachers to communicate with parents through a variety of digital tools. School and class newsletters are no longer published or read the way they were 20 years ago. Today, parents prefer to receive school communications digitally. To meet this need, many teachers publish a class website allowing them to share critical information about their a child's learning with their parents.
A blogging platform, such as Edublogs, is a free and often easy-to-use tool for self-publishing. Many teachers find it convenient to use a blogging platform to publish their class website. However, blogging offers many other benefits behind simple one-way communication with parents. By allowing students to create their own blogs, teachers can harness the power of blogs to develop a student's writing skills. When used in this way, blogs allow students to publish their writing for a real-world audience and receive authentic feedback from readers. Teacher can also harness a blog's potential to teach students valuable self-reflection skills. By having students reflect on their learning and then share those reflections with others a community of learners focused on supporting each other can develop. While a blog is about writing, the act of blogging is about community building. Through the use of classroom blogging, teachers can begin to transform their classroom into a learning community. |
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