20 Reasons To Blog With Students

The author provides a list of twenty reasons teachers should use blogs as a teaching mechanism in the classroom. Of the twenty, I think that reason #15 is the strongest: "work is permanently stored, easily accessed and valuable comparisons can be made over time for assessment and evaluation purposes." Recently I noticed that the way our county sets up student login accounts allows them to save files to "My Documents" and they can continue to view their work from year to year. My fifth graders are very eager to show me their work from fourth grade. Using blogs would allow students to access their work from any computer from year to year. I also agree that parents would enjoy being able to read their child's blogs.