studentblogs
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Motivation
Students love to interact
Students love technology
Publishing work adds pride
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Comprehensive
Blogs can support all other curricular areas
Blogging alone supports the majority of the district’s technology standards
Add some other Web 2.0 tools to create blogging content, and now all of the technology standards are met
Organization
Blogs can be thought of as an interactive journal or portfolio of student work
Students use the blog to reflect on learning, publish their writing, illustrations, scanned work, and any other web-based media
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The blog is easy to organize so work can’t get lost in backpacks or at home.
Convenient
Students can use any available computer with internet connectivity to work on assignments
Teachers can use the blogs to access work from convenient locations as well
Make comments and suggestions to students that can be easily accessed later
Blogs require very little computing power; inexpensive computers, microcomputers, and even smart phones can be used
Powerful
Utilize the resource of the entire teaching community to give constructive feedback to student work
Parents can become a part of the learning process like never before- even those who work during the day
Other stakeholders, such as business leaders, can collaborate on meaningful, authentic projects.