Post 1: Using Blogs to Within Our PLCs and Classrooms

      Using blogs within (Teaching) Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) have heavily influenced the ways in which teachers reflect on his/her own teaching. Blogs have also become a powerful and limitless source of knowledge encouraging the sharing of classroom projects, lesson ideas and content. The investment in professional teaching blogs has provoked sharing and inspiration to other colleagues as they are able to share feedback and enable others to feel empowered within a respectful learning community.
      As we have grown aware of the incredible impact of blogs within professional circles, the increase of student interactions with blog use has also become popular. Students have displayed active engagement with content, grammar/conventions, and other public blogging audiences. By students having other audiences to share their blogs with, they are able to feel a sense of affirmation and confidence. Opening new literary audiences can inspire students to experience new forms of literature and reading content that, perhaps, students would not have been exposed to in conventional school settings. Not only has blogging led to gleaned writing skills, it has encouraged critical thinking and reading skills thus needed to be a successful members of society. We, as professional educators, know that students respond best when presented with choice and creativity. Blogs are truly a means of connecting learners to the 21st century in a global, strategic, thought-provoking way.