Are Blogs bad?

So in class we starting talking about how teachers might be worried/turned off from blogging for class assignments because of the potention danger of the internet and children. I think there is something to be said about the risk of children finding something they shouldn't or God forbid a blog resulting in a lawsuit against a teacher but couldn't this fear be used to really teach our kids about internet safety first and then venture out with blogging?

Just a thought...

Blogs?

So this is my first time ever blogging.

From what I know about Blogs it is a place to write about what you are doing that is not of interest to most of the reading world. I have NEVER been interested in them so I struggle with the fact that I need to make them useful/interesting for my students.

Any helpful hints to make this fun, enjoyable, interesting???

Thanks in advance.