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Why it's important for students to blog (write)
1. Kids want to share their work with a real, authentic audience.
- Kids are motivated to write when they know their work is being valued and appreciated, and blogs enable this to happen.
2. Kids need to learn how to write and present their work in an organized fashion.
- Teaching through a normal writer's workshop format.
3. Kids need to learn how to use the internet and become digital citizens.
- Blogging becomes part of the digital citizenship curriculum and online safety.
4. Kids benefit from creating organized work portfolios that they can easily access from a variety of locations.
- Their creations become their multimedia portfolio.
5.. Writing is a higher order thinking skill, as it requires the author to synthesize information and thoughts and present it in a coherent fashion.
- Students learn the writing process within a blog including variety in genre's.
6. Blogs enable the teacher to access the student's writings and art work at any time on their mobile devices, laptops, or desktops and offer timely feedback.
- Teacher and peer conferences become much easier through the access of students' writing.
7. Parents, administrator and grade level peers become the audience.
- Feedback from more than a few readers.
8. Blogs are a part of the social curriculum
- Posting takes courage and teaching students how to engage respectfully has a long term effect.
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