Educational Blogging Tools

Educational blogging tools are ideal for promoting communication within the educational system.

A valuable learning experience is one that results from a strong network of teachers, students, school administrators, parents, the local community and the rest of the outside world. The internet blog is one of the most powerful tools available for educators to establish and support such a level of communication.

Using blogging tools, a teacher can set up a single web page consisting of multiple blogs. These blogs can serve several purposes, including providing students with assignment information, questions and answers, classroom announcements, and assignment results.

Educators use student blogs to provide feedback about writing from the general worldwide population. This approach allows educators to teach students about the value of constructive criticism; how to accept such criticism and how to improve writing skills based on such feedback.

Teachers and school administrators utilize blogs as a public relations tool. For example, they keep parents and the community updated on special school activities, sporting events, fundraisers, or other activities that require the active support of the surrounding community.

Blogs are an ideal collaborative environment for groups of students to conduct research or to complete large projects together. A blog project provides students a place to communicate with each other and to develop results in a "living document." It also allows the teacher insight into the development process students' use.

A number of educational blogging tools are available to make the classroom blogging experience as easy and painless as possible for both the teacher and the students. The technology of blogging is occasionally overwhelming but with the right tools, teachers easily incorporate blogs into all aspects of education. Additionally, since there are a number of free blog options available, using this technology doesn't have a significant impact on a school's budget.

Blogger is a simple and easy-to-use web blogging tool owned by Google. Blogger integrates with Google so that you can use the same Google user account credentials.

Using Blogger to create a blog is extremely simple. In three easy steps, the blog is immediately ready for updating. The steps are simply:

1. Create an account
2. Name your blog
3. Choose a template

Because it is so easy to set up, a Blogger account is ideal for students to get started on their very first blog.

Blogmeister is an ideal blog tool tailored for the specific needs of teachers in a classroom environment. The teacher manages Blogmeister completely. With a classroom blog, the teacher adds students so they can write articles to which the teacher, classmates, and other audiences can read and reply. However, all content, including reader comments, are only published after a teacher review.

Odiogo is a unique tool that converts written blog entries into audio podcasts for easy downloading and listening. This is an excellent tool educators use to make student blogs more accessible. These podcasts are used at teacher conferences or college level seminars where students' blogs are shared with other educators without the need for paper or computer.

Bloglines polls blogs over the internet for new content. This allows you to receive updates without having to conduct time-consuming searches. This tool updates educators on the latest educational discussions and news, and students on the world of news and editorial commentary.

Educational blogging has the technical capacity to change how education takes place in the classroom, assuming that the culture of various school systems and communities embrace this new tool. With appropriate blogging tools and safeguards in place, web blogs are a powerful and integral part of the educational experience. Used wisely and effectively, they greatly enrich the learning process.

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