Please take the time to check out what, my boss and Stage of Life's CEO, Eric Thiegs,
created an easy YouTube video outlining the
Six Benefits for Why Teachers Use the Blogging Features on StageofLife.com:
- Free: It doesn't cost the teacher or the student a single penny to use the open platform
- Unlimited Bandwidth: Registered users (students, teachers, anyone) can upload 1, 10, or 10,000+ essays to the site, and the user's profile page will archive every essay for future reference. Get this...a student could theoretically start blogging in high school and then continue through their entire life, with each essay from each life stage archived in their Stage of Life profile, thus creating an essay anthology of their entire life for the world to read. Now that's cool (and the students/teachers seem to think so too).
- Interactive: It's a blog platform so students and teachers can comment and post on each other's essays. Plus, social share features are built into the site so that after an essay/blog is posted, the student can Digg it, Stumble it, Facebook it, etc.
- Writing: It's all about the writing. StageofLife.com is not a 140 character Tweet or a three sentence Facebook update. It's an essay...a story. This means the student has to pay attention to structure, content, style, point of view, grammar, spelling, theme and more.
- Customized: We're now exploring setting up customized landing pages on StageofLife.com for educators or clients.
- Real World: StageofLife.com deals with real world issues, things that concern teenagers and teachers. We have writing prompts and a monthly writing contest for high school students. One of our recent teen writing contest winners' essay from StageofLife.com was featured on TIME.com.
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