Our readings and videos for this week were all about how blogging is beneficial for our students because it allows for the students to reflect on what they are learning. The article "5 Reasons Your Students Should Blog" states that blogging not only allows teachers to "see what they learn, but they can learn from each other as well." (Ferriter) The same article also says that in blogging, students can "develop different literacy with different mediums...basically anything with an embed code can be placed in that space." (Ferriter)   In "Blogging is History: TakingClassroom Discussions Online",   the teachers used blogs as a means for the students to ask and answer questions on the text and to bring more meaning into the classroom discussion.  One advantage of blogging, according to the text, is that it's an inexpensive technology to integrate. "It is free or virtually free."  From the video, "Why Blog? Science Online Students Answer" it is obvious that the students enjoy blogging and it provides them feedback on their thoughts, not only from the immediate classroom, but from all over the world.

            Blogging sounds great for History and Language Arts classes, but how can it fit into a Mathematics curriculum?  I had to do some research to find a valid answer. The best example of blogging in High School Math came from Jeff Dumoulin's blog, Blogging .... In Math Class.  One of his hyperlinks sends you to a student's blog where she posted a sample problem of the work that she had done that week and provided a discussion/description of that lesson. Using math blogs in this way helps the students to create cohesive thoughts on the lessons that they are covering at that time.

Image from Sophia Mannina's Marvelous Math Blog
http://sophiamannina.blogspot.ca/