2. How can teachers use blogs in their classroom and how could students use blogs to help facilitate classroom projects?
In my (Melissa's) science classroom, I would use blogs as an online lab notebook -- students could post their research findings, hypotheses, experiment results and analyses, photos of apparatus and experiments, etc. At the end of an experiment, they could post their finished analyses and results.
Students could participate in communal learning by reading and replying to each others' blog posts.
As with all technology, the digital divide poses a problem if you want your students to work with blogs at home.
This sounds like a digital portfolio. The same concept could be applied to other subject areas as well. Students in a history class could report back to the class on a topic they've researched or their reflections on what it would be like to live in a specific period of history.
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