In How Many Ways Can You Use a Blog in the Classroom?

The introduction of the online marketing brought about a boon in the ways of formulating strategic advertising campaigns and promotions. Individuals and organizations have started using social networking websites to promote their products, services, and events on a large scale; surpassing national boundaries of a country. Educational institutes have also started exploring the online world to communicate with varied people and university authorities. A number of school and university management have created their own organizational website and blog to inform and update prospective students and their parents about their programs and course schedules. Blogs can be used in a number of ways to enhance the learning experience in the classroom.

· Update students about courses you intend to offer in the upcoming semester. Allow students to view class catalogs plus fill up or download an online class registration form along with easy transfer of registration fees without travelling to the school or university to complete formalities.

· Blogs are great platforms to carry on discussions from a distance. Students can simply respond to blog posts and discuss topics through comments.

· Allow students to publish their assignments and project works on their individual blogs for you to easily edit the same.

· Teachers can post various assignment outlines; plus the key points of the lectures on the class blog which is easily accessible by the learners. It will specifically benefit those students who were unable to attend the lecture. They can follow the discussions without any problems.

· Add important website links plus your upcoming class registration details (online class registration form, etc.) on the blog for people to book a seat.

· Communicate with students and their parents by posting important information about upcoming field trips, related registration forms, and trip-related documents for easy viewing online with instant downloading options.

Teachers should encourage their students to create blogs and update it regularly posting topics that will be discussed in the upcoming classes. It will help students to get an idea as to what will be discussed in the next class; plus read through text books or search for added information on the internet preparing themselves before joining the class.

Get your students blogging so that they can share their work and thoughts every day. Blogging provides the learners with a stage to be more interactive and glued to the lessons taught or to be taught in the classroom. Blogs act as a great collaborative platform where all students and teachers can participate and quickly create, co-manage, and even edit content, if needed.

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