Blogging and teaching USU assignment

According to Mighty Writers 2007-2008 Third graders (Seattle, WA) blog...you can use blogs to post a youtube video of an open house event or any other event happening at your school, just in case certain people couldn't attend a school event. Also in the (http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=65078) Brian Crosby blog they made videos and took pictures of a NASA field trip. Brian's blog made there field trip available to parents. Parents could see what there kids saw and learned about. Students could continue to post their own comments and feelings about the field trip they undertook. In another blog (http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=1337) Kathy Cassidy's blog used pics of a school project that students were working on. Also there were videos of students Christmas craft projects put online for parents and students viewing. These blogs made students' activities become "real" to parents. Parents could see and learn about what their son/daughter were working on in class. The online videos were probably a lot more exciting to parents to be able to visually see what their kids were doing in school. Also parents could see their kids' classmates in school and how their kids were acting in school during the videos. The pictures taken in these blogs said a thousand words more than what a young child could say he/she was doing in school.