Jun 11 2008
Thing # 4: Why Use Blogging in Education?
In the process of teaching of writing, the Publishing phase receives the least of the teacher’s attention. After the Editing phase, the teacher tries to find time to grade and comment on 20-30 papers. The next phase in the writing process is the Publishing phase. Teachers do not usually want to spend the time having students read their papers aloud or have reports presented to the class using Powerpoint. So most of the time the papers are pinned to the bulletin board and/or sent home. Pinning a paper to the bulletin board does not provide a great incentive to write more or to write better. But the possibility of having your writing read by thousands….now that is incentive to write often and to write well. The case for using Blogs in education is presented extremely well by Anne Davis on her blog.
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