Plusses and Minuses of Blogs

After using blogs during this semester I have become very comfortable with blogging. i think that blogging is a great teaching tool and benefits many people around education. The great thing about blogging is what you an put on it. You can add links, announcements, worksheets, daily life, and even schedules. These are things that many parents need to know and usually lose any worksheet that a child brings home. Using a blogs allows the parents to be more interactive with their child's school life.
A great plus is that you can easily inform everyone what is going on in your classroom. This does not only include the parents. It includes a child that might have missed a day because they were sick, a principal that wants to know an objective of an activity you did, or even another teacher who wants to do the same lesson as you. A blog makes things easier because none of these people would have to come to the teacher directly, they could just visit the blog.
The only minus I can think of with blogging is the time it takes to keep up with it. Already I hear teachers complaining about what they have to do in the classroom and how much time it takes, so adding a blog to their plate would take more time. Although I believe that once they took the time to set up the blog, then it would begin to save them time.
I looked at another students blog, Brian O'Gwynn, from Brian's blog I have learned that he wants to be a P.E. teacher. I think that Brian could still utilize a blog for his classes. He would have different criteria than I would have as a regular education teacher, but he could still post informative facts about physical education and any tests that students will have to take in his class.