A blog could be a useful tool for education, in or outside the classroom. Blogs can be used for collaboration, sharing ideas or newly discovered information and it can be spread far and wide. This tool really is limited only to by you, the user. Blogs can be developed subject specific, group specific - school groups, class specific, topic specific, friends or family. No matter the reason for starting a blog, they can be a useful communication tool.
In an educational setting, a blog can be used as a reflection tool. Students can post their thoughts about a given concept from class. They can post questions that they forgot to ask or did not feel comfortable asking in the classroom during class time. For those students that missed class, the blog posts maybe helpful in recovering the information that they missed. Links could be posted of supplemental material available for the students use.
My favorite use for a blog is to collaborate. As an artist and Art teacher, though many aspects of art assignments can be individual, we can always benefit from collaborating with others. I have my students collaborate routinely at various points of their project development to help the students understand others' perspectives of what they are developing. What's to say this couldn't be done also in a blog?
AP students have to select a central idea or topic for their Portfolio Concentration. Why not blog through these ideas in the process of deciding which direction to go? This way they would not feel as though it is such a difficult choice to make and they are able to think through it with others, problem solve. Again, blogs are limited only by the user.
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