Blogging In Education Today (a multipart series)

Looking at how today’s teachers are using blogs – the first post in a series looking at the many uses of blogging in today’s educational institutions.

While blogging in general is well past the ‘emerging’ state, its use in education continues to evolve and expand. I think that a series of articles providing a broad overview of the topic, complete with worthy examples of education-oriented blogging, could provide a useful resource to educators considering blogging for the first time, and for anyone just trying to learn more about the topic.

Over the course of the series, I will look at the blogging practices of teachers, students, administrators, and education-based technologists. We’ll start with a look at how teachers are using blogs.

Teacher Blogs

Teachers have been using blogs for many years, and their use of blogging appears positioned for continued growth. Teachers use blogs to provide assignments to students, to communicate with other teachers about classroom experiences, or with other educators about the use of educational technologies, and for many other purposes.

Blogging can also provide an easy way for teachers to give parents insight into what’s going on in the classroom. I believe this type of school-to-parent communication will also increase, hopefully becoming commonplace in years ahead.

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