When I was in graduate school, I spent many hours typing over class notes. I didn't necessarily read those notes once I printed them out; the act of typing and organizing the notes helped cement the facts and concepts in my mind.
This may have some application for classrooms. Last year, when taking the Skillful Teacher course offered by RBT, a classroom log notebook was one of the strategies introduced. Kids would take turns being responsible for writing in a shared notebook what went on in each lesson. (Today in science we looked at rocks and how to identify them . . .the most fun part was . . .new science words we learned today . . .) This is easily transferable to a blog. It could remain a classroom tool with rotating contributors or, possibly, each child could have a learning journal in which he or she would have 5 - 10 minutes daily to reflect and remember what they learned that day. The teacher could easily correct any misunderstandings, and parents could really see what was being taught.
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