Blogs for the Classroom

Blogs are an interesting way to use technology in the classroom. I feel as if they are more or less a professional social media. For my future classroom I could use a blog to have students research a related science topic to the lesson and have them publish a blog post about what they learned. Some examples could be jobs in that area, a specific cycle studied or part of a cell. In some I could require finding a video or cool images that help explain the topic more. Like this class, I could have the students interact with each other through commenting on each others blog posts. I think the students would like that because most students these days like the use of technology. Blogs create an area for creativity and growth that the students would be able to use and push their knowledge and interactions, while a google doc just gives a place to type. In biology many topics need to be covered, so a restraint with the blogs would be that I may not have space/time in a unit to include them. Check this cool science vid : cells are cool!