I have really enjoyed blogging, much more so than I anticipated I would when this course began. It is a personal diary in many ways, but it can be shared, and people can read your innermost thoughts. And people can respond to you. That in and of itself demonstrates the communicative power of the platform and the openings it permits and encourages. It has a wide range of educational purposes, allowing students to explore, articulate their thoughts, organize, interact with others, and form groups. I can see having your students prepare and maintain a subject-related blog in almost any subject matter in secondary education.
Another nice feature of blogs is their multimedia capabilities. The digital imagery and sounds which you can incorporate into your blogs enhances learning and appeals to a wide range of learning styles and preferences. You are communicating on many different levels of intimacy and in many streams of sensory acquisition. You will see a plethora of pictures on my blog, as I really believe in the power of imagery and the visual stimulus.
Finally, the blog's self-storage of prior posts and comments serves as a written legacy, a catalogue of thoughts and correspondence, which you can refer back to again and again as time passes. What a wonderful feature! You don't have to search through old papers and notebooks, it is right there at your fingertips. And it is focused in one place, not scattered over dozens of e-mails that get lost in your e-mail inbox over time. Organized, historical, and archival, features that an aspiring social studies teacher, slighty left-brained, is bound to appreciate and enjoy!
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