Citation/Abstract

The heart of education beats with a teacher's perception of instructional effectiveness with students. Communicating efficiently will enhance a teacher's instructional effectiveness and a student's ability to understand. Blogging appears to offer multiple opportunities for teacher and student use. Writing in a blog by both student and teacher may strengthen their relationship while also providing a unique means of communicating instruction more effectively. Through electronic surveys and virtual interviews of blogging K-12 teachers, as well as document analysis of their blogs, this study examines blogging in classrooms within the United States to determine how blogging is used for communication and instruction. This study considers how blogging has changed instructional practice. This examination of edubloggers informs the educational community on the potential of blogging to support classroom communication and promote increased learning for the Digital Age student.