The Advantages of Blogging

Convenience and Simplicity: Can be utilized from any computer connected to the Internet. You don’t have to be logged in to your school station/network to make changes to your blog.

 

Social/Collaboration: A blog can have several authors or contributors with varying levels of access for publishing comments or posts and other content.

 

Engaging/Motivating for Students

 

Interactive

 

Multiple Learning Styles: Blogging appeals to multiple learning styles.

 

Context for Learning: Students can create real products for a read audience and get real feed back.

 

Encourages Reflection

 

Tech/Work Place Skills: Students learn technical skills for the workplace and life.

 

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