Stakeholder Communications

Teachers can blog information about her classroom to her students’ parents. Teachers can also blog assignment information, post documents and post lecture notes for her students. The administration can post important information about the school, such as unexpected early dismissal or an emergency evacuation. The school board could post their meeting minutes for the community to read. The administration and teachers both can use blogs to gather data. A user can post a poll and readers can vote on an issue. I posted a poll on my assignment blog to see how many parents or students were viewing the blog and how often. When the administration wants the input of the community, the can use blogs to gather the data.

Blogging Concerns

With everything in this world, there is always a negative side. There are concerns about blogging that is evident. One of the biggest concerns is that our students post anything and everything on their blog. They forget that their blog can be read by anyone all over the world. A middle-aged man half-way across the world can be reading the blog of a middle school age girl. That man is able to carry on conversations with the girl as someone else. Sometimes our students post too much personal information on their blogs. Blogging allows our students a sense of freedom in what they can say and boldness in how they say it. They are removed from the situation. Bullying is much easier online and is harder to do something about.

Educational Blogs

The value of educational blogs is high, and it is extremely important to the 21st Century learner. Our students today are already confidently blogging about their social lives. Why can’t they blog about their educational lives also. Blogs allow our students to connect with people all over the world, people who have different cultures, ethnic backgrounds and socio-economic status. In social studies, our students don’t just have to read about China. They can actually carry on conversations with Chinese students their own age. Teachers can use their blogs to post assignments, documents that were handed out in class and even their PowerPoint lectures. Information is readily available for our students who use blogs.