Why blog?

Why blog...?

• It's a great way to become more proficient with technology – partly because successfully publishing things on a blog gives your confidence a huge boost
  
  
• It"s a way to share things with other people, and not necessarily with your students. I"ve got blogs, for example, that I share with my kids, and they have one that they share with their grandmother (who sees them only once a year). With your learners, it could be your sharing with them things that you think may be useful – such as sites where they can find interesting listening or reading material, for example
  
  
• If you use it as a personal diary, to record reflections on your teaching, then you are thinking about your teaching; by thinking you learn about teaching, you learn from and about your own teaching. And if you are not learning about teaching, my advice would be to stop!
  
  
• If you use a blog for the purpose of reflection, you can also share it with other teachers – and reflect collectively – so that your blog enables you to share ideas and support each other
  
  
• If you use it with a class, particularly if they author at least some of the content as a team blog, then it gives them not just a purpose for writing but the sensation that they are in control, that they are creating something collectively, something which belongs to them and which they belong to themselves. For group dynamics, and for motivation, that can only be a good thing...