How can you use blogging to communicate with school stakeholders?
As stated previously, blogging can be used from the classroom daily. For Elementary campuses, we can use a class blog to update parents and community members of what it is we are doing. How Science experiments are going, what is happening in our classroom community, when the next class party is, what just happened in the chapter we read together during reading circle, and so on. This would be a wonderful way for divorced parents to stay in touch with their child’s class, for parents who are out of town on business or family trips, even for students who are called away with family emergencies to stay in touch with their classmates and teacher. A class blog could be a wonderful way to document the whole school year for the children, as well as the teacher. To document progress and celebrate the little victories that happen in the classroom.
Often times, when we mess up as educators it is due to lack of communication. You can never communicate too much in my opinion. So, for me to think of a class blog that updates parents on all sorts of items, it is a good thing. Parents would not have to worry about not getting that note from Johnny, it would be online at all times for them to see. Communication is key at all levels.
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