Blogging
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Like a journal or a diary, a blog is means to store
and share one’s opinions. It is done so on the Internet, can be regularly
updated and open to allow others to communicate with you. Perhaps this feature of
Computing is more at home in a higher-grade secondary school, or even
sixth-form college as I have not seen or heard reference to any use of blogs on
my various classroom placements over the years.
This, in itself, is quite sad as blogs allow pupils to digitally display their work online and, like Skype, allow them to communicate with children from other schools around the world. It can allow children to express their point of view of something and allows them to write with a purpose.
There are many pros to blogging, but teachers and adults need to be careful about the pictures and details they reveal on the blog. If blogs are used in a school, they should be started by a school staff member, with the consent of the head teacher and other respective authorities regarding e-safety, and be monitored closely.
This, in itself, is quite sad as blogs allow pupils to digitally display their work online and, like Skype, allow them to communicate with children from other schools around the world. It can allow children to express their point of view of something and allows them to write with a purpose.
There are many pros to blogging, but teachers and adults need to be careful about the pictures and details they reveal on the blog. If blogs are used in a school, they should be started by a school staff member, with the consent of the head teacher and other respective authorities regarding e-safety, and be monitored closely.