Blogs in Classrooms

     In my future classroom, I plan on using a blog where the students can post items.  Sometimes, students in first grade struggle to write letters and sentences; however, if we teach the students how to type on their iPads, they can keep a blog at the end of each day with one or two sentences (length depending on the time of year) of what they did that day.  Then I will send their blog URL's home so that their parents can see on a daily basis how their students are progressing with typing, spelling, and what they have done in school that day.  It will be a good way to get students to summarize their thinking of the day, as well as a good way for the parents of my students to see what is happening in the classroom.
     I will use blogs myself to gain information and for lessons to help me teach my students.  I will also follow blogs in order to keep up with updates in curriculum.  Many blogs contain information for teachers such as worksheets, advice, and helpful hints on teaching; therefore, I will use blogs in order to get new ideas and become a better teacher.