Inspirational ways to use blogger

 

Blogger is the easiest way for teachers and students to share work, class notes, pictures and research online.

School groups can use Blogger to communicate and generate feedback on community events. Blogger is very effective for use in collaborative projects that would benefit from an online journal with multiple contributors.
Blogger also allows students to jump right into web publishing without having to learn html, and access their account from any computer.
Blogger for Students
Students can use Blogger to share work, research and pictures with classmates, teachers and parents who can access all of these things from anywhere. A blog can be a convenient hub for collecting information for both long and short-term projects, as students can store information as drafts before they’re ready to publish them. Blogger’s comments section allows students to easily get feedback on their work and start dialogues on their projects. Students can even start multiple blogs on one account, one for gathering information and another for the project itself. Students could also print out homework which their teacher had posted on his/her blog.

Blogger for Teachers
Teachers can easily assign collaborative group projects in an online environment that grants them an easy way to track their students’ progress. Such projects could include:

• A diary of pioneers traveling on the Oregon Trail (many teachers use the more diaryesque elements of blogs in these creative ways)
• Tracking the results of science class experiments
• Current events blog to which each student contributes weekly
• A stock market tracking games for a math or economics class
• Group research projects that include links to other online resources

Teachers can also use Blogger to stay in touch with parents about their children’s progress and keep them posted on upcoming events.

Uses for Extracurricular Groups
School sports teams, dance clubs, community gardening projects and other extracurricular school groups can use Blogger to communicate with parents about upcoming events, give game highlights and share event pictures. 

(adapted from http://www.google.com/educators/blogger.html)