1. Students can use as an online diary.
2. Great space for student’s creative writing.
3. Develops reading and writing skills as well as critical thinking skills and information literacy.
4. Students can establish worldwide connections.
5. Teacher can follow the students learning and see where they have come from and where they are going in the learning journey.
7. Encourages collaborative learning.
8. Allows people to comment on work.
9. Students could discover similarities and differences between themselves…students who may not usually communicate with each other may find that they have common interests.
10 Students who may not usually voice their thoughts may feel more comfortable in an online space.
11 Construction of knowledge is occurring as students read.
Could be used as an assignment. MINUS
1. Student motivation levels may differ.
2. Topic will either engage or disengage the student.
3. Some schools do not allow blogging sites.
4. Comments left by readers could be nasty or derogatory.
5. Students have varying levels of ICT competence.
Time management. INTERESTING
1. If a student becomes disengaged with the topic, they won’t get the benefits of authentic reflective learning regardless of how good the instruction or tools are.
2. Some students may benefit highly from creating a blog whilst others may not and will simply regard it as a ‘compulsory’ waste of time.
3. Comments from followers enable the author of the blog to identify areas of success and weaknesses as well as what is of interest to their readers.
4. Negative comments left by followers could take away the confidence of the writer.
5. Sometimes the process is more important than the product. A student’s work may not be of the highest standard, however their progress would be evident to the teacher.
6. Students are put in a situation of equity.
7. Some students may not have the skills necessary to feel confident using the blog.
Could take a lot of teachers time to read the blogs. 
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