Most can challenge classroom teachers or future teachers to analyze the net input and output of information going into and out of their classrooms. For most teachers, a great deal of information is brought into their classroom, much of it thanks to the Internet’s World-Wide Web. The web is inherently an interactive medium, and although outside of class time many teachers and students utilize its interactive potential via email and instant messaging programs, during school it is much more common for them to use this tremendous tool like an advanced television: tuning in to channels (websites) of desired information and then bringing those broadcast streams into the instructional environment for largely passive consumption.
Weblogs are Internet-based informational resources with the potential to change this common, limited use of the World-Wide Web in education. There are many ways to overview blogs as well as make suggestions for ways that students can be effectively and safely used in educational contexts. Like many technological tools, blogs have potential for exciting instructional uses, but also potential for abuse and even dangerous uses which educators should acknowledge and proactively address to protect their students as well as themselves. As long as teachers and students have a mutual understanding of the internet, this tool can only serve as a positive environment for both students and teachers.
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