Blogs

 

 __**What is Blogging?**__

**Blog means web log. A blog can be used in a variety of ways... often they are used as an online diary, somewhere to store and reflect. As well as a way to share ideas with parents/teachers and wider audiance.**

__**Blogging in Education**__ Currently Blogging is very popular in many schools. It is used as a way for children to an interact with eachother and their teachers. It is used at both primary and secondary school. Children are able to email their classmates and teachers asa well as upload their work comment on other children's work. This would create an adiace and a purpose for their work, which in my experience encourages children to become more engaged. Due to blogs being to connected they are becoming fastly popular in education, they can foster the development of a learning community. Having such an audience can result in feedback and and greatly increase student motivation to do their best work.  __**Blogging as part of the school website**__ Upoloasing the Blogs onto the school website can be a fantastic way of developing the relationships with parents and caeres at home. They will feel informed of what their children have been learning at school and has the potential to continue with this at home.

This video explains how this school utilises blogging

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__**How to create a Blog**__ To help children understand the purpose of a blog it would be benficial to show them some examples or the teacher could create their own to help model. It is also useful to set a context for their blog to give purpose. []

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