These personal online journals are cheap, they give an audience to individual reflection and they are giving classrooms a way to face the world.

The purpose of having a blog is quite vital as they can be used for several things, a teacher might maintain a blog to post thoughts on each days works, parents are able to keep up to date with what is going on in the classroom, it also serves as a purpose for those children who are struggling or need to catch up, but what about those homes without a computer?

Richardson used this blogging tool to give his students an outside audience. When he taught journalism and English to 11^th and 12^th graders, he had them use their blogs to monitor a group of 4^th and 5^th graders in Georgia.

Anne Davis the grade-schoolers teacher stated that” they were scared at first because their writing wouldn’t be good enough but having an outside audience really made a difference to them. They couldn’t believe someone cared what they wrote’ I think this part really struck me because children’s work becomes visible to the world, anyone can read and anyone can comment which really means the whole world is a stage. Imagine all the collaborative learning that can take place, children will be able to learn so much from other peoples views and they can even express their own views.

I like how the article states you just can not tell the children to blog, and that is true it completely diminishes the point of blogging. Davis has her students stroll though a list of current events and asks them to blog on something that interests them and has to be different each week. I believe this is a fantastic idea it allows children to explore things that interest them and they are also able to share their views with the world.

It is a great way to encourage children to start writing and sharing their views, it also helps the shy child to break out and not be afraid to share what they believe, it links everyone together. I also like the way that blogs can be used to share work with parents and the wider community, this drives students to want to do their best and gives them a sense of ownership.

http://www.edutopia.org/all-worlds-stage