I believe that using blogs can be helpful if you use them properly. If anyone can create a blog then any information can show up on a blog. This causes for blogs to become untrustworthy. But if you do use them properly then you will be able to weed out the bad ones. Blogs can be useful for education in situations like this for the class to stay updated and be able to contact each other very easy. If someone believes that blogs are a waste of time then they clearly do not understand the possibilities that blogs have. Blogs can be about a wide variety of things and be very useful to some. I would show them blogs that can help them in everyday activities. The main way I would use the technology in chapter 6 to support the students, is mostly by letting them use it. If they don't understand something how will they if they do not use it? The use of new technology in general will spark ideas in students and help them create new and creative things.
Jonassen, D., Howland, J., Marra, R. M. & Grismond, D. (2008) Pearson, Merrill/Prentice Hall, 3rd edition
Blogs in Plain English [video file] retrieved from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN2I1pWXjXI
