Blogging

 [|Sturino Blog]

[|My Science Blog using Edublog]

[|WMS eboard site] This is my school eboard site. The entire staff updates this site daily. We post homework, class activities daily announcements and a variety of other information for parents and students.

 [|My School, Meet MySpace: Social Networking at School]

This article discusses the use of tools such as Moodle, blogs, Garage Band, to motivate students to learn. The focus of the article is that the schools are not reinventing a new version of themselves; however they are reinventing schools that allow children to adapt to a changing world that is steeped in technology.

[|Blogging Is History: Taking Classroom Discussions Online]

This article discusses using a blog to facilitate an online book discussion, which allowed over 300 students to discuss the book, regardless of time. This discussion was not only exclusive to the students in the class, it was also open to other teachers, parents, and another middle school class from the state of California. This particular format allowed even the shyest and the most reserved students to freely share their thoughts and reflections on the book study. This was due to the anonymity that a blog allows.

[|All the World's a Stage: Teaching Through Online Journals]

This articles examines how blogging can be integrated into the classroom. The article highlighted fourth and fifth graders who have partnered with a local high school English class so that students can share writing pieces with one another. Sharing their writing in such a manner gave students a purpose for their writing.

[|Blogging in Place: Writing That Explores New Neighborhoods]

This article discusses two teachers form Maine and San Francisco who created a two-year long blog which connected the students digitally using common writing assignments that related to their hometowns and each of their lives. Although they lived in very diverse setting the students discovered their lives were actually very similar in hope, dream, and outlooks. It also discussed using the blog to communicate with parents by posting homework assignments and assignments on their blog. Parents really thought this was a very effective way of being able to monitor their children’s progress.

[|How To: Start a Place-Based Blog]

This article discusses the proper steps when establishing a blog. The article focuses on teaching blogtiquette, organization, finding an audience, protocol, and privacy of the audience and purpose of the blog.  

