Why blogs in education?

• Connected, fostering the development of a learning community
• Give students ownership over their own learning and an authentic voice
• Genuine, and potentially worldwide, audience for student work
• Contribute to identity formation in students (Bortree, 2005)
• Display all student work in one central location; interconnected learning
• Students organizing their own learning
• Develop writing, research, and digital literacy skills
• Add to the collective knowledge available online