Top 5 Ways an Educator Can Use a Blog

I've been asked to offer some ideas on how educators might use a blog, here are my top 5.

1. An educator can write their thoughts on a topic, issue, or struggle and solicit feedback from colleagues.
2. A principal can write a weekly or monthly blog to offer casual reflections and thoughts on how the school year is progressing, how the students have been working hard, etc.
3. A teacher can give students a piece of literature, mathematics, history, science to analyze and students can leave public feedback.
4. Students can manage their own blogs.  Teachers can give students a critical writing assignment and students must write on their personal blog.  Teachers can also make a requirement to comment on 5 other students blogs as part of their "grade".
5. Students, teachers, administrators can find thought provoking blogs to challenge their paradigms.