Blogs has moved into the education sector rather slowly. It has been slowly adopted by educators due to a variety of reasons, such as access, privacy, and security issues. But keeping in tune with the popularity of blogs among ever increasing masses, more and more educational institutions and teachers are jumping on to this technology bandwagon called blog. They are now experimenting with this technology to maintain a collection and publish students’ work, to communicate with parents and students, to study with distant collaborators, and to manage the school community’s created knowledge.

There are many more people who believe that Weblogs is a cheaper alternative to course management systems. One of those is Tim Lauer, Principal of an elementary school in Portland, Oregon, who is widely using weblogs in his school. The Meriwether Lewis Elementary website [http://lewiselementary.org/] collects the latest news and events from a series of separate blogs, which are attached together through RSS. This proves to be a timely source of information for the school's website, besides allowing a number of staff members to contribute a more distributed content creation model. For example, the music teacher keeps a log for music news, and PTA members contribute to their own site.

The use of blog software keeps a classroom or school’s website very easy. Teachers or principals can decide to note about their classroom or school and concentrate on the content without worrying about becoming a web designer. And the biggest benefit is the cost, as moveable type blogs are free for educational use. These cheap blogs are as competent as any expensive course management tools. As the budgets of the schools are continuously getting squeezed, the use of such moveable type tools is a resourceful and wise utilization of schools’ dollars.