Advantages and disadvantages using blogs in the classroom

Some of the advantages to using blogs in the classroom is that the students use technology all the time and they absolutely love use it.  Blogs are something new and are not of a traditional classroom style of teaching.  This gives the students a type of outlet because they know how to use a computer and they are comfortable using it whereas some of the students today are not comfortable using paper and pencil to do things.  Another advantage to blogs is that if the parent and guardians and or other family members can see what there student is doing in school they can look to see on the student’s blog.  Some of the disadvantages to using a blog in the classroom is that students can put information that they should not be put out on the internet.  The teachers have no way to read the student’s blog before being posted on the internet; this means there could be grammatical errors in the blog which would be published for all to see.  Teachers can have a hard time managing the blogs of all the students because the teacher may not have internet all the time, whereas before if they carried there papers around all the time with them they are able to read and comment on them.