over-view of blogs in the classroom

The actual name is web-log. It is use to publish, often updated frequently, it´s some kind of a journal. To make it short, we call it blog which would be the "b" of web and the word "log" is added: Blog.

Advantages of using a blog as a teaching tool:
* Motivates students to participate
* Oportunities for read and write
* Mentoring
* Collaborative learning
* Many uses: informative, tutoring, assignments

Need-to-know when blogging
* As in everything, ethics is very important when blogging (quoting, not violating copy-rights, ways of expressing ideas, difamation....)
* Privacy and security: It is important to keep youself and students safe as well as respecting the laws. A few things to take into account in this point are: not posting addresses, complete names, passwords,  not posting children pictures without permission, not to post anything that might attemp with your security since a blog contains information that might and will be seen by, virtually, the whole world; unless the blog is private or the kind that can be seen only by those who have an invitation to see the blog.

The opportunities to read and write are many while blogging and indeed it´s very motivating though not to every student, some of them just hate reading and writing and for that I think it´s important to make short posts or as clear and straight to the point as they can be -that´s kind of a hard task to me, though. But also there is the other problem of relying in techonology only, what happens to those students that do not have internet? many might say, well there are cyber-cafés, libraries and even there´s the school. Not always, some kids just do not have access to internet, it is a fact. I was once one of those kids: my family simply didnt let me go out to a internet-café, gladly after they decided to get internet in our house.