Thing #3 - Using Blogs in the Classroom

As a future teacher in a special education classroom, I can see using blogging for professional use.  SPED is a very comprehensive field full of new research and new rules just about every week, if not everyday.  Having support from fellow colleagues would be highly beneficial, especially as a new teacher.  Maintaining the latest research and teaching techniques would be much easier if we had a safe blogging area to give and receive information back and forth.  As far as my classes are concerned, it would depend on the severity of disabilities that are given.  I plan on working in a severe/profound classroom and it would be a case by case basis if blogging would be something that would work in the classroom.  However, it would be a beneficial communication tool with parents if we were to set up a safe forum.  That would definitely be worth its weight in gold if we can keep an open line of communication for those parents who would like to be more involved in the classroom.  The potential for blogging in the classroom is astronomical.