Thing 3

It is important for teachers to post comments to the web. The Internet has become more useful to educators, by allowing for feedback, facts, and ideas to be presented on the web in the form of Web Logs or Blogs.

The specific benefit of writing is its relative permanence and serves as a record of our growth in learning. Writing forces the learner to focus on the subject, make evaluations of the subject matter, and to draw conclusions.

Writing is a complex neuromuscular process of receiving messages, decoding the messages in the brain, correlating and evaluating the message and reducing the process to written form. It allows teachers to collaborate, question, and present information for further discussion and evaluation. 

Blogging is an important skill for teachers to develop for education purposes, because vast amount of educational materials are being transferred to the Internet.