3 Key Ideas - Teaching with Blogs
Detail: Outline 3 key ideas or activities from ONE reading on your blog that teachers would find useful. Include the full reference so that any visitor to your blog can find them.

1. Quality teaching through a quality learning environment is possible using blogs (weblogs) as they can easily be student directed and demand both high expectations and explicit criteria for quality work. Being student directed, blogs can enable and even encourage discussion and negotiation between the students for both content and quality requirements. Blogs also encourage self-assessment due to the public nature of blogs and the negotiated rules.

2. Blogs are much more than simple web diaries filled with banal introspection, they can take the form of journals, reports, creative projects and other class-based activities and can conveniently create a space to house, discuss and display other digital media projects classes may be undertaking.

3. The interactive nature of blogs can provide an environment for assessment and conversation between students, teachers and peers that can extend beyond the classroom to involve the schools wider community and possibly an international audience.

References
Pericles, K. (2008). Happily bloggin @ Belmore South. SCAN, 27(2), 4-6. http://www.curriculumsupport.education.nsw.gov.au/schoollibraries/