Blogging offers instructors an engaging way to facilitate classroom management, collaboration, discussion, and portfolio building. Because blogs offer students the chance to move beyond the classroom virtually, blogs offer instructors several benefits to support a number of pedagogies and goals for writing as well as content courses. As a publishing platform, blogs offer an engaging medium to shape student thinking about ideas, how to shape ideas, and the ethics and moral surrounding the posting of those ideas. The following ideas are some of the more obvious benefits of blogging:
- Free and accessible publishing platform
- Interactivity as students can both post and comment
- Joint de-centered, authorship; students can be tasked to provide content
- Useful in any type of class for reading and writing
- Facilitates any type of communication between instructor and student
- Option of community blogs can work like bulletin boards or discussion forums
- Nurtures discourse among instructors and students
- Provides effective forum for collaboration and discussion
- Motivates students to take ownership of their own writing
- Creates opportunities for students to consider the writing process
- Gives students tools that enable scaffolding, mentoring, and peer review
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