Why Educational Blogging?

Educational blogging is a growing source for people to share their ideas, opinions, and plans. Teachers, administrators, and learners everywhere are creating blogs to educate and inform others and to connect with their readers. There are many rewards and challenges that accompany this form of educating. For example, finding the right topics and opinions to share can be difficult at times. But the freedom of writing educational blogs has shown to be very fulfilling. They tend to be more casual and conversational, giving writers a chance to express themselves, while still being informative. Even students can benefit from blogging because it gives them an opportunity to grow in their writing skills and creativity, all while expressing themselves.

A teacher works on her educational blog 
outside of the classroom environment.

Another great thing about educational blogging is getting to read others' blogs. I have personally enjoyed reading Ava Holder's "Home environments effect in the classroom" blog post on her "ETEC 386 blog". From this reading I was able to discover the importance of students having a supporting environment at home and how their environments could affect them in the classroom. Furthermore, because of educational blogs, I also got the chance to read about school safety on Skylyn Wood's blog post "Safety Safety Safety" on her blog site, "Skylyn Wood Speaks". Here, she discusses the importance and increasing intensity of this issue.With the growing pressure to address this school safety, Skylyn explains that schools need to improve their classroom environments to create a safe place where students can ask for help and receive care and guidance. With educational blogs you can even read up on parent-teacher relationships as Anna Dutrumble discusses in her blog post "The Importance of Teacher-Parent Relationships" on "Anna Dutrumble's Educational Blog Series". With this reading, you can learn great ways to create positive parent-teacher relationships. No matter the educational blog, there is likely something beneficial to be taken away from reading them!

Overall, I think educational blogs is a very valuable tool to have. It can be a way to self-express or a way to connect to others. If you are trying to solely inform your readers, then you have the opportunity to do that, too. This is also a great way to allow students to showcase their skills and thoughts, and this is a terrific way to engage them. So far, my experience with blogs has been positive. I have had the opportunity to research topics, define their importance, and share my thoughts on them. Being able to do this has been valuable to me because I think it will help me become a better educator and more knowledgeable person in general.