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Blogging in Education....

**Blooger is a program which allows the creator the ability to set up and write a blog over a topic of their choosing. It is a free program offered by Google. This program has potential for a great many uses in the classroom. I see this type of program being more successful in the high school setting. Ideally a teacher teaching reading could use this to have students express their thoughts on a novel the class was reading or a novel which they were reading as part of the individual curriculum.**

**I think a pro of this program is it allows the students the opportunity to express their thoughts which they might not like to share in a classroom setting. I think it also allows them the chance to view other classmates opinions on the novel which could allow them to see that others share the same views of reading as they do. A final pro is a teacher could set it up to allow students to read other contemporaries views on the novel before beginning with the hope of setting them up with positive thoughts on it. A con of this program could be that students do not have acess to computers on a daily basis and your school might not have enough computers for you to be using on a daily basis.**

**Listed below is a link to a blog demonstrating how I would use this program in my classroom if I was teaching upper grades.** Blogger Page