Blogs and Education

In researching how blogs shape learning, I was happy and excited to read all the possibilities. I guess I am new to using this much much technology in my teaching. I am embracing it and loving it. I found ideas like having teachers share blogs. This would be a great idea for my district since we have at least 15 kindergarten teachers. It is a fast way to keep up on things. I also like the idea of using a blog as a classroom website. I never thought of this before and think this would be neat. The teacher could post assignments and students could blog back with any questions, etc. This would especially be great over the weekends. The last idea that I found was using blogging as a journal. This would be a new avenue to teaching writing. I am not sure how kindergarteners would use this but I will keep thinking. Overall, in my research about blogging I was happily surprised at the many different ways to incorporate this tool into the classroom.