Why publish schoolwork in your blog?

After working as a teacher for several years, I think I know what mostly happens to a text produced by a student or pupil.

It begins with thinking, brainstorming, writing keywords, making a structure, and at last, writing the complete text. Several hours of hard work! Some days later, or maybe a couple of weeks, the student receives an evaluated assignment back. But what does mostly happen with the text after this moment? A brief glance at the teacher’s comment, while some more attention is payd to the grade before the text ends its life in the school’s trashcan.

Isn’t several hours’ hard work at the computer worth more than this? Don’t these texts deserve to live longer? And the answer is of course yes, the texts indeed deserve a longer life, and one way to postpone death is to use a blog.

Why blog?

Blogging might sound a bit scary. Publish texts on Internet so that everyone from all corners around the world is able to read them. Why can’t I just save them on my computer? Or in the school’s LMS? 

Feedback is a keyword. A text won’t have much value to anyone in a trashcan. Stored and locked up in a computer or a restricted area on Internet, it isn’t worth very much more either. The value comes with readers. When you let other people read your text where they give comments and feedback on what you have written, your text will suddenly live a life, maybe a bit out of your control, but it shows that it has value to more people than just you and your teacher.

Hopefully you will enjoy writing texts even more after publishing them in your blog. But as a blogger you also have a responsibility. If you wish positive and nice comments on your blog, you have to give such comments to other bloggers as well. And remember, no text is too small or too big to be published, and most topics are acceptable.

Have fun J