Blogging in education

Blogging and RSS — The "What's It?" and "How To" of Powerful New Web Tools for Educators
The Boom in Blogs ... Now Extends to Education
by Will Richardson
"Educators have been slower to adopt Weblogs for a variety of reasons, among them access, privacy, and security issues. But as more and more people get on the blog bandwagon, more and more teachers and schools are starting to experiment with the technology as a way to communicate with students and parents, archive and publish student work, learn with far-flung collaborators, and "manage" the knowledge that members of the school community create. In fact, many are seeing Weblogs as a cheaper alternative to course management systems."