Using Blogs in Education

         I can think of a couple of ways in which educators could use blogs to better connect with today’s students and have an easily accessible way to communicate with each other.  In my district we have a new teacher mentor program that I feel would benefit from a question / answer type blog.  First year teachers have so many questions about district procedures and curriculum that I think an open line of communication could be extremely helpful to them.  I also think that teachers of high school students could use the technology of blogging to connect better with their students.  They could post questions for the students to respond to or they could simply post lectures and due dates for projects or homework.