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The following was originally published February 5, 2012 at http://travislyon.edublogs.org/2012/02/05/module-2-blogs/ I believe the use of blogs in education/classrooms can of course be beneficial. I guess, like anything to do with young people, the need for appropriate content needs to be monitored. With the availability of options such as “approve” to the blogger, I think this should be easier to control when it comes to comments and so on being suitable. As far as their use, I think the possibilities are endless; that’s what excites me about technology. For use in my own PDHPE setting: I visited John Loadsman’s blog and liked his honesty and also his concise approach.
 * It could provide a place to hopefully instigate conversation and questioning.
 * The remote accessibility of blogging is cool and I believe it will be a growing trend amongst educators.
 * I also hope to pick up many useful ideas and resources, as I have already begun to with micro-blogging sites such as Twitter.