should you start student blogs in your classroom?

As art educators, we already know the importance of our online presence.  Whether its creating classroom webpages, writing blogs, tweeting, pinning you name it – we’re engaging in the process and reflectiveness that comes from our experiences with technology.  It has only been just recently, however, that I really digging into the question of how should my students be participating in this same experience? I’ve seen many classrooms and examples of students’ blogs, classroom Facebook pages, but I finally realized that I was hitting a wall of fear and doubt of how to control it in my own classroom.  After convincing myself to let go of that fear, I have found that the benefits of students’ blogging have created a whole new level to my classroom and helped strengthen my students’ involvement with their artistic process.