Blogs can be a great tool for students to read and express ideas. I can envision using a weekly blog as a way for students to reflect on classroom topics.
One unique use of a blog for social studies students would be having them describe travel tips if people were to go back to an era being discussed in class.
Most of us take modern conveniences for granted, and this would give students a way to really think about and voice their viewpoints creatively on what it would be like to live and travel in different times in history.
