Primary blogging with pupils and staff can be innovative and enjoyable. The use of an online journal or personal webpage helps to stimulate and encourage pupils as they publish their work. Children are mainly interested in computers for playing games, this is a constructive alternative which gains ever increasing interest.

Writing a blog will help pupils in many key areas such as:

-Computer and keyboard skills.
-Literacy, reading, writing and spelling.
-Organisational skills.
-Increased accuracy of work.
-All aspects of the curriculum
-Communication by words and pictures

Pupil interest is high as they can write their blog on virtually any subject and know that their work will reach a worldwide audience of some 600 Million internet users. Statistics back on the number of people looking at their blog will encourage the pupils to write and stretch their imagination as they think up new material to publish.

The blog is an engaging medium that will help them to express themselves, stimulating ideas with the knowledge and encouragement of knowing that their material will be read by a large audience, including families and relatives, at home or abroad.

Interactive projects can reach every pupil, Each Teacher and therefore class can have its own blog which enables pupils to collaborate on projects and tasks.