Blogs as a Teaching Tool

I know most (or all) of you ExploreLearning teacher-users are engaged in math and science instruction, I still wanted to pass this along.

A story in the Washington Times (hat tip to Joanne Jacobs for the link) suggests that student weblogs (or blogs) can improve student writing:.

Blogging may not wash with wizened educators, or those who distrust modern advances, but a group of educational experts sees blogging as a way for students to hone their writing skills while discussing ideas they otherwise may never have encountered.

I'm a former writing teacher, so this gets me excited about the possibilities of how a teacher might formally include blogs into a curriculum.

Do any of you have students who maintain a blog? This New York Times article points to what a growing trend blogging has become among today's students.