Benefits of Blogging

     As a future educator, I see many possible ways that I could use a blog in my classroom. From an instructor's perspective, I think a blog is helpful when it comes to quickly and effectively communicating with the students. A blog creates a place for a classroom to technologically bond and can be a place for assignments and updates to be posted and for safe communication to happen between instructor and the students and from one student to another student.
     For my students, creating and using a blog offers them an easy way to have their work published. Often times, students complete a writing assignment, turn it into the teacher and then that's the end. With a blog however, students' work can be ready by people from all around the world. They can receive immediate feedback and comments on what they have written which is something you can't get with a Word document. Having a blog also pushes students to be vulnerable in their writing due to the fact that the teacher will not be the only one who reads it. I think it is important for students to be pushed in their writing so that they are able to grow as writers. When they write from a vulnerable state, they learn how to express themselves in new ways and eventually will become more confident in their writing abilities.