Module A

Blogs can be beneficial when working in education in order to communicate with other teachers, parents, and students. Teachers can brainstorm about lesson plans and can reply to each other on their own time instead of finding an available time that works for everyone to meet in person. Teachers can also post information for parents to read on the blog. This may include information regarding field trips, daily class assignments, supplies needed for class, and school functions. I think that parents would like to have more communication with their children’s teachers. If a child comes home from school and tells his or her parents that they don’t have any homework, the parent can go to the blog and check for themselves. We all know that kids are not always completely honest. The parents and students can respond to the blog with questions about assignments.


For an assignment, a teacher can put a blog on the internet and require all of her students to comment on it. Students are more likely to openly share their views over the internet than in person. They may feel less threatened when their classmates aren’t staring at them. Blogging gives students more time to put their thoughts together, instead of being expected to come up with an answer when called upon in class. My biggest fear in school was being called on in class when I did not know the answer. When responding to the blog, the students have the time to do research and put together an answer without feeling pressured to come up with an answer on the spot.