Blogging

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[|The Journal - Why Blog?]   [|Blogging Rare But Still...]  [|High School Bans Blogging]  [|Brain of a Blogger] [|Blogging Clicks With Colleges]  After reading several articles on blogging there seems to be a few commonalties between them. One is that blogging is a great way to share your thoughts and discoveries with the world. There is a ton of information out there and this is a great way to connect with others and their ideas. It is a great way for educators to share information with their students as well as parents. It is a good way for lessons and important information to be shared at home. It is a great way for schools to be connected to working parents. However, there is also the idea that blogging shares too much information and can be harmful to students. If parents do not watch what their students are blogging about or the blogs they are reading it could bring harm to them. Sharing too much personal information could be a serious problem. With anything, if parents/guardian aren’t watching their children there could be some problems. Schools also have to monitor what their students are doing so that they are using the correct sites for educational purposes. In all blogging can be a very useful educational tool. As long as it is used properly students can gain a wealth of knowledge and it is all at their fingertips. In my class our nonfiction unit actually starts with a blog from the scientist Andrew Mishkin who blogged about his encounters in space. It is printed in our textbook and reads like journal entries. It was a great way to introduce the students to my blog and tell them about all the information they could discover from educational blogs.