What is a blog?

A blog is a type of website that is usually arranged in chronological order from the most recent post at the top of the main page to the older entries towards the bottom.(http://www.problogger.net/) Blogs would be great to use in elementary class rooms for many reasons such as: having students keep a jounal, helping them with typing, and teachers can have their students do assignments. There are both pros and cons about Blogging. Some pros are, you can express how you feel daily without wrighting it down and, it's easy way to keep track. It helps students to learn how to use a computer and, helps them to learn how to type. It is also a nice technique that it saves automatically on http://www.blogger.com/. Some cons are, students using blogging for a bad causes and, posting things that young children do not need to be reading. Also, some people are not good with computers and , they don't want to be so, blogging wouldn't be a good  hobby for them.