Blogging as an effective teaching tool

From the start of the semester I already knew that I was going to like this class more than any other one I had taken this past year. And to make that even more incredible was when the teacher on day one took the whole class by surprise when he said that there would be no tests and the only amount of work we had to do was blogging on the topic discussed in class. When we were told this however I was pretty optimistic about blogging because I have never blogged before and didn’t really know what it was about. A few weeks into the semester and a few blog posts later I started to realize that blogging was an excellent way to teach the student without the teacher having to provide tests to the students. When using blogging to teach a certain topic it makes the student actively search and learn everything they can about a topic so then that they are able to write about it in a blog. While one may be thinking this is a dumb way of teaching because you’re not testing the students’ knowledge you’re just having them write about it would be wrong in my opinion. With blogging they are responsible to know a lot about a topic in order to be able to explain it to the intended audience which is in turn the test. You are not able to write a blog well without taking the time to learn everything you can about it. So in conclusion when It comes to blogging I believe that is a great tool to use when trying to teach a topic to someone because it makes them do all the work learning everything they can about the topic so that they can then write as well thought out informative blog post.