The Importance of Blogging

Over the course of the semester in EDM 310 I have come across several interesting things from different peoples' blogs. I have learned how blogging can be very useful for both the creator and the reader. You can learn all sorts of things and at the same time get feedback. It has become an important part of our technological society. One can achieve many things through blogging and sharing information over the internet. This tool is very important and is used by many people.

One example of the importance of blogging is to share progress with others. The video of the PS 22 students singing is a great example of this. They were sharing the video for someone to see the song they were singing but ended up getting widely recognized. Just by posting that video for someone they got recognized.

Blogging is also important because it can be used as a way to record things. A great example is the blog "Dear Kaia." This blog is written by Kaia's father for his 4 year old daughter as sort of a scrapbook. He records things that they do so that later Kaia will have the memories with descriptions, pictures and even videos.

Another good example of the importance of blogging is for teaching. Doing the comments4kids I have learned that teachers help their students to read and write by making them blog. Even younger students have gotten into using blogs. I think this a great way to encourage kids to both write better but also learn to use technology. It is important to have technologically literate kids in society today.

This is from a 5 year olds blog.

Comments4Kids

This week for comments4kids I read a student's post on the class blog for Helen King's year 5 students at Pt England School. The student's post that I read was Kingston. His post was entitled Kingston at the Swimming Sports. He wrote about a swimming race he had won and had a video of him swimming. He wrote a few well formed sentences about it as well.

To read his post click here.