Why use blogs in the classroom?

1. Create a learning community, open 24/7, which is a place different from the traditional classroom.
2. Provide an authentic audience for student writing, including peers, parents, and a potential worldwide audience, while promoting a cross curricular connection.
3. Allow for feedback from the networked students, teachers, and other interested persons. Learning in a class blog setting is now a social activity.
Support differentiation. The blog can give some of the more verbally reserved students a forum for their thoughts.
5. Encourage reading. To make a meaningful comment, or to choose their favorite post, students first need to read what's out there.
6. Encourage and teach research skills prompting students to extend their research beyond the assigned work.

Taken from: Crane, Beverley E. Using Web 2.0 tools in the K-12 classroom. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, 2009. Print.