"A blog is a personal diary. A daily pulpit. A collaborative space. A political soapbox. A breaking-news outlet. A collection of links. Your own private thoughts. Memos to the world"I really like their description of what a blog or weblog is, because a blog is essentially whatever you want it to be and the possibilities are endless. On the other hand, with something so limitless and growing rapidly, there can also be disadvantages. Below, I have provided a list of my personal opinion on what the advantages and disadvantages of blogging are.
Advantages:
- Can update your ideas anywhere you have access to the Internet.
- Can get ideas from other people's blogs that can help you get what you need (cooking recipes, beauty tutorials, classroom activities, etc...)
- Easy for parents to see what their kids have for homework, whats going on in school, special events, etc.
- More efficient than emailing, because it allows other parents/students with the same questions to see if the answer has already been posted rather than the teacher replying to multiple parents/students with the same Q.
- Save paper.
- Easy to reference back to an entry (archive/tags).
- Good and easy way to keep connected to your community, whether it is a group of friends, a classroom, a district, a school, etc.
- Can be more personalized than a website.
- Very easy to set one up. No need to know codes for websites, etc.
- Blogs offer different types of media for teachers to help their students in any way (audio, video, images, etc).
- It's free!
- Maintaining a blog may be difficult as it is time consuming and requires a lot of dedication.
- Must have internet access.
- If a blog site goes down or is under construction, it is impossible or very difficult to get back all of your posts and links.
- Needs to be well administered in case of inappropriate comments/posts.
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