How do you use the blog?

That's what attracts me: bringing together the serious academic business inside the classroom with the dynamic and often creative world they inhabit outside the classroom via their computers and cell phones—a world connected to their families and friends in extended communities. Learning is, after all, intensely social, and blogs as social software are all about connecting and communicating.

"This Time, It's Personal: Elevating Creative Discourse Through Student Blogs"

By Barbara Ganley

Maybe you are new to the Blogosphere. Maybe you are a beginner or an advanced blogger. Why do you feel that blogging has a place in the classroom? How are you using it or thinking of using it with your classes? Be sure to tell what grade level and/or subject you teach.