There are numerous reasons for using blogs in education, such as to provide a real audience for
student writing, to provide extra reading practice for students, to increase the sense of
community in a class, to encourage students to participate, to create an online portfolio of student
written work (Stanley, 2005). The novelty factor creates student interest in starting to use blogs.
It is claimed that blogs work best when learners get into the habit of using them. If learners are
not encouraged, blogs can quickly be abandoned.