blogs

toc =**Blogging: A Literacy Tool for Students and Teachers...**=

It is worthwhile to explore use of weblogs to enhance what occurs in your classroom, and your professional life as well as.

**-Some Reasons to Blog with your students:**

 * An authentic audience is valuable to students.
 * Voices that are usually quiet can be heard.
 * Students are engaged by the medium.
 * Collaboration between students is promoted.
 * Work can happen outside the time and space constraints of school.
 * Immediacy of sharing of thinking.
 * Appeals to various learning styles.
 * Work is easily shared, collected, and preserved....

- An excellent intro from Teahers First

**SupportBlogging!** has been set up to provide an opportunity for students, teachers, administrators, parents, and others to help promote an understanding of the benefits of educational blogging. Mrs. Lazzaro's Class Mrs. Swartz's Class Mrs. Blackmur's Class We Are Empowered GlobalKids: ESOL at Dewitt Middle School Endangered Species of the World Kathryn Cernera - MS English blog Leadership 101 at IHS LACS Artroom Faculty Forecaster at LACS Knowledge is Power Kids and Community (Associated lesson plan information) Second Grade Blog from Northeast School Nelson's News Hickory News Booknook: Third graders' book reviews Enfield School Library Bauchner 5th Grade at BJM Fall Creek Library
 * ==**-Some Examples**==
 * Local:**

AP Calculus Blog - Integrates notetaking and SMARTboard files 7th Grade Math - Welcome to the 7th grade math blog. The questions you see here are meant to be used as review problems students solve at the beginning of a math period. All problems are based on the Ohio Academic Standards. Montessori Seniors Class 2007Please leave comments under the appropriate articles. The questions are only there to guide your responses. You must complete one response per week. No credit will be given for anonymous comments! Bookworm - Secondary student blog in a traditional context. Kathy Cassidy's Grades 1 and 2 Blog New Zealand Year 1 Mighty Writers (Mark Ahlness, Grade 3) Mrs. Perry's 4th Grade Blog Gordon Brune's 5th Graders Bloomer Sixth Grade 12th Grade English Blog Welcome! Hi All! Please use this blog to a) continue our classroom discussions b) raise new questions and topics c) ask peers/me about homework, et al. You can also go to our website for further information. Ciao, Mr. Johnston ||
 * From the World:**

-Blogs and Student Safety
from David Warlick Here is a release form for ICSD student publishing

-Blogs addressing education and technology.

 * David Jakes
 * Miguel Guhlin
 * Will Richardson
 * David Warlick
 * Lani Ritter Hall
 * Peter Reilly
 * Tom Woodward
 * Wes Fryer
 * Bud the Teacher

-Finding blogs

 * QuackTrack : World's Largest Browsable Blog Index
 * Blog Search Engine
 * Google Blog Search
 * Technorati

-Tools for creating blogs:

 * Using KidBlog
 * Using Edublogs
 * Using Blogmeister
 * Using Wordpress
 * Using Blogger

-For further Exploration, and credit due for some links above:**

 * Monroe BOCES Wiki Page on Blogs
 * Will Richardson's Wiki Page on Blogs
 * Improving Instruction Through the Use of Weblogs
 * Blogging-It's Elementary - A Webquest to help elementary students learn about blogging