First Blog/discussing class

I wasn't much of a diary writer as a child, I found my old diary from the 90's and each day I had a one sentence entry "we are still at war", actually quite fitting for the times. This post I want to discuss what was done last week in class. I wasn't in class last week since my 6th grade students were completing their moving on ceremony. Since I missed class I have been playing catch up with the information. One of the big ideas is discussing how and why blogging can be appropriate and useful in schools. There are many sides to this controversy, my take on it is that as long as appropriate district policy's are followed, blogs should be appropriately involved in curriculum. It does not have to be included in each and every lesson or curriculum aspect, especially since it will be time consuming for me as the teacher while I learn, but I have attempted to use it in the classroom and with more time and effort I want to expand.