My initial feelings are that Blogs are rather self-indulgent and used for gap-year travellers who want to appear conscientious because they have visited a poverty stricken country for 2 days before returning to their air-conditioned 5 star hotel for a juicy steak.
However, I can see the potential of blogs in the classroom and am excited about of starting a class-blog. I feel that children could be excited to contribute to a blog and would be interested to see each other's contributions. There would be a danger of children seeing blogging as a form of compulsory work and lose enthusiasm for it. It would therefore have to be managed and introduced in an exciting way in order to maintain interest in blogging.
Remember to look at Monty's PGCE blog regularly!
http://primaryblog.wordpress.com/
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There would be a danger of children seeing blogging as a form of compulsory work and lose enthusiasm for it. It would therefore have to be managed and introduced in an exciting way in order to maintain interest in blogging...
Good point.
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