Blogs in Education Final Draft

Blogs in Education

        Blogging is beneficial to education, teachers, and students. It is beneficial to schools by helping structure their school. Schools will be able to post their policies and rules online for the students and even parents to read. Blogging also helps benefit education. Because there's so many students and usually only one teacher, most students don't experience one on one time with a teacher. In response to that, teachers can post up extra help on the blog, and students can comment on them asking questions for help. This is also beneficiary to the students, as they can use this blog by communicating with other students to discuss things such as homework.

        Blogs in schools allow the school to become more structured, such as using the blog to post their policies and rules online. Some schools tend to having something similar to a handbook, or a guidebook. Because it's common for students and parents not to read the handbook and follow these rules, schools will be able to post their most important rules online on a blog. This will make it easier for students, parents, and even teachers to access much easily. In recent events, there have been budget cuts on public schools. This makes for a lack of paper to spare. To assist with this, blogging can help reduce the amount of paper being distributed schoolwide. The teachers will have more paper to use for tests or homework. Not only will it help with policies, it can help spread the word about school events, such as basketball games, bake sales, fundraisers, etc.

        Teachers can also find use in the blogs, such as helping their students more. It's plainly obvious at how many students there, and how little teachers there are in one class. Because there is only one teacher, and so many students, the teacher is often unable to help every student that needs help. Some teachers set up after school tutoring sessions, but sometimes they get cancelled or students can't make them. To make this situation better, teachers can post up extra help on their blog. Students can also post up questions they have about tests, homework, etc. Students and teachers can also build better communication on blogs. Students can message questions privately, which is easier then meeting after school sometimes, depending on the situation.
        Students benefit from blogging as well. They can communicate with other students and teachers online, which sometimes is easier than communicating in real life. If a student has extracurricular activities, or just simply cannot schedule a time to meet with a teacher during given hours, the student can simply post on their blog asking for help, or comment another blog. This is also a helpful tool if teachers do not provide an email address for the students to email them. Sometimes teachers do not want students to email their personal emails, so setting up a blog seems like a good alternate. If it's a weekend, or an odd hour of the night, students can post a blog that teachers or students can respond to. Not every student communicates privately, so a blog will allow that to happen, and not cause any social conflicts.
        Blogging is very useful concerning education, teachers, and students. Schools are able to keep their student body and staff well informed by using a blog to keep up with school events and news. Teachers can assist students more frequently online using a blog. Students can communicate with other students and staff if they are in need of any help. Blogging proves useful in education, and is more modern and common in modern times.