Blog Features

• Teacher-centered blogs, eg. http://www.ogps.wa.edu.au/years_1_and_2/ and http://langwitches.org/blog/ 

• Student-centered blogs, eg. http://year6classof2011.edublogs.org/ and http://jackienelson.edublogs.org/ 

• Blogs allow students to develop and express their own unique voices

• With regards to pedagogical practice, the use of blogging in the classroom has been found to complement a constructivist approach to learning

• Social aspect of blogging has been found to assist students learning, as students frequently find reading the blog posts of peers more helpful than their own writing or other academic sources  

• Research has shown that the use of blogs in the primary classroom can have positive literacy outcomes