Blogging on Classroom Sites

By adding blogs to our websites, we give parents the opportunity to be part a community that surrounds the classroom. At first, I didn’t understand why I should create a blog. I had made an announcement area on the home page. I figured that the homepage would be a good place for parents to quickly see what was going on. I had felt that a blog area was a little redundant. But, after I wrote the blogs I realized that having a blog page would encourage parents to comment and participate in the building and modifications of both the classroom and the website.