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=Purpose:= The main purpose of this study was to show how blogging can become a writing to learn acticty in the classroom. This can then engage students because its a medium that they already know and use in their everyday life. Blogging especially can be very beneficial for students because they can be very personalized. Blogging can also increase student motivation, critical thinking skills and extend the classroom beyond the classroom walls. Students can have a web-blog or even a collaboration blog on a certain topic with another peer. This can then include silent students that otherwise wouldn't participate in class.

=Results:= The results from this study showed that using blogs to teach science concepts can increase student knowledge. This is mainly because it makes student reflect on their work and engages them on the topic when normal instruction can fall short. Also that blogging bridge certain gaps from school to home. students can blog anywhere and students enjoy it more then homework from a book.

=Thoughts:= This article was very interesting telling how blogs can help engage students toward science and learning science concepts. I thought the article should of had some number or some kind of data to back up the conclusion. I also thought integrating blogs in the classroom is very good idea. Students can share their ideas and their knowledge on the concepts. This means the teacher can look at what they are writing and assess them.

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