It just seems a bit over whelming. I checked out lots of blogs and sites listing blogs and I felt as if I was following multiple threads of a spiders web. It is possible that students may enjoy blogging but at the moment it does not appeal to me. Writing to an unknown audience, even perhaps with no one ever to read it. For what purpose.
May be there could be potential for short sharp bursts as another medium to engage students, but does it have the potential for an extended life? I doubt it for me.
One possibility that comes to mind: Yr 7 Science planted geranium seedlings today. They took photos on their phones and will email them to their group mmembers. Then in the exercise books they started a record of their activity, observations and measurements of their plant. If they had laptops they could do this via a blog and share it with each other. But is it going to have a better educational outcome than what we have started today?
I do see there is a role for blogs in other situations- eg my son kept us all entertaiend with his travellers tales last year whilst having a gap year. Cheaper and more efficient than post cards and phone calls.
Maybe as I explore more I may be converted, but as yet I am not.
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