Blogging can be incorporated into the classroom as a teaching tool in many different ways. Here are some of the most common:
· To create a course blog in which you (as the instructor) blogs the content and ask students to comment on your posts before class.
· Via blog, students will be able to share ideas with class, share resources with one another, and invite in outside participants (if teachers allow them to).
· Each student can set-up and maintain his or her own blog. This can be a great way to facilitate student journaling, with journal entries either kept private, shared with just the instructor, or shared more widely.
· Individual blogs can be used to scaffold a project or paper. For instance, Post 1 could be a list of potential topics; post 2, 2-3 primary sources on a chosen topic; post 3, a research proposal; post 4, a progress report; post 5, a draft of a section of the paper. The benefit of having students do this on a blog is that you can put them into peer editing groups and students can give one another feedback online.
· A Course Blog can serves as a ‘hub’ which aggregates individual student blogs into one centralized space. On this blog, course information such as the syllabus, the schedule, posts about assignments, handouts, and course discussions can be done.
