Why blog?

As I prepare to offer a staff development session for the teachers at my school on the benefits of blogging (which means your audience is about to get bigger as I'll be sharing our site with them!), I came across this post that reaffirms why we are using blogs as an instructional tool for our class.

Since you have participated as a student blogger, check out the list at the link below and see how many of the benefits of blogging that she lists apply to you!

What does student blogging exactly do?

Also, connected to the blog linked above is another blog Notes From McTeach that describes a lesson on teaching students how to blog before actually hitting the keyboard! I love this idea for scaffolding and direct instruction.