Blogs

Blogs can be used in a variety of ways that will allow students to learn in the classroom. Teacher's Tom and Mariela believe that blogs will be most helpful if you stay to 4 certain criteria in the classroom: "1. Encouraging students to generate their own guidelines for blogs, 2. Asking students to create "blog rolls" that engage the same discourse communities that they wish to address, 3. Integrating students' blog posts in day-to-day classroom discussions, and 4. Pursue cross-classroom network of readers." By using these guidelines in a classroom, this website suggests that blogs can help students to create writings that are less formal than essay writing and more collaborative and individualistic, allowing students to want to write and enabling them to broaden their type of writings. To learn more about blogs in the classroom setting, please visit [|Steps toward a Successful Classroom Blog]
 * Using Blogs in the Classroom**

http://awd.cl.uh.edu/blog/ This website is dedicated to blogs in education. It is helpful in starting blogs in classrooms both for the teacher and students. It contains a variety of examples of different blogs in different subject areas such as calculus and writing composition. It gives suggestion on how and what to use blogs for. If someone is interested in starting a blog for one of their courses, this would be a good place to start.

http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00001449.shtml This website helps teachers understand webblogs and help them use it in their classrooms. There are several articles where teachers can see different examples of blogs used in the classroom to give them idea how they want to use them. There are also students' blogs on there that teachers can look at understand how their students perceive what blogs should be and whether the teacher thinks it will be effective in their classroom.

http://anne.teachesme.com/2005/07/09#a2979 This website gives the first hand view of how eigth grade students at one school view blogging. The provide a list of why blogging is helpful in their education. This is a blog where students were able to reflect on how blogging helped them improve their education.

There are many educational benefitis to using blogs in the classroom. Blogs can be used to inform students of class requirements, post certain handouts, and homework assignments for the week. Blogs can also serve as a type of question and answer board where students can post a question and wait for their teachers response. Another positive to using blogs is that students can benefit from peer review to help with their writing skills. When a student posts a blog, another peer can fix any mistakes they find, and this is alternate way to learn rather than if the teacher corrected their writing. A blog can also create an environment where students can have discussions about certain topics outside of the classroom.

Blogs are a great resource for students and teachers. When working on blogs students can place where students can work on them at any time. They can be used for many differnt reasons whether it is to hand in assignments/projects or even just to express themselves. It provides the classroom enviroment with differnt ways to communicate with one another outside school. The website I found offers some great resources on web blogs and gives differnt learning areas that could be focused on. http://www.det.wa.edu.au/education/cmis/eval/curriculum/index.htm Some of the different learning areas that could be focused on while using web blogs inlcude are the arts, english, health and physical education, and even learning other languages than english. This is just proof that blogs can be used in many different ways and can aid childrens learning in just more than one particular subject.

http://www.teachervision.fen.com/educational-technology/blog/33550.html This website is an excellent one for teachers to get advice and talk to different teachers about their thoughts on anything that they feel about different classroom topics. This blog connects teachers from any area that would like to give feedback on different lessons and tools and recieve feedback and thoughts as well. This can be very helpful for teachers that would like to get advice from other teachers first hand.

My blog page which gives my veiws on some of the topics here can be found at http://blogsarelovely.blogspot.com/ This page depicts my opinion on some different educational tools.

After creating a blog, I can see how helpful it can be to students and teachers. I think it is great that as a class, students can look at eachothers blogs to see what kind of opinions or topics someone is talking about. It is nice to learn about fellow students and their opinions on different topics. This is my first time creating a blog and I can see how it can be helpful to teachers as well. Blogs can connect different teachers to find out what kind of lessons work and what kind of guidance they should be giving to students with different needs. This webiste has many different helpful tools for teachers in addition to helping them create blogs to get in touch with other teachers. go to: http://www.teachervision.fen.com/educational-technology/blog/33550.html for more info.

What is a blog? [|Class Blogmeister] defines a blog as, "an online publishing tool that enables people to easily publish their loves, passions, dislikes, peeves, discoveries, and insights." Recently, the blog has become more and more popular to use for political agendas, pop culture, newest and oldest fads, and classroom usage. Blogs are especially useful in the classroom. BlogMeister is a tool that many teachers can use to help thier students write "authentic" articles and tone and create better communication skills in a safe and controlled learning environment. One of many blogger tools, Blogmeister is just another example of how teachers can help their students write better and learn better.

Blogs are very popular in the classroom and this website allows teachers to get ideas, many tutorials and links to different sites as to where teachers and students can sign up and start up their own classroom blogs, and great tips for educators. After having to do a project on blogs for this class, I see the many benefits for clasroom blogs.If you are interested in creating a classroom blog, looking for tips, or exampls, visit the following URL : http://www.my-ecoach.com/online/webresourcelist.php?rlid=4992

Blogs can be published by anybody, and sometimes teachers create blogs for their classrooms. They are easy to use, and there are many beneficial aspects. Blogs help students with their reading and writing skills because they have to write their blogs, and read other people's blogs. Also, blogs encourage discussions. The students can read other student's blogs and if something in it sparks their mind they can discuss with their class, or discuss in their own blogs. Although there are some risks, and some parents may not be too fond of their children being broadcast onto the web, there are precautions that all teachers can make. Teachers can make sure that their student's blogs are set to private, or they can put different names into the name section of the blog. To learn more about blogs go to: http://www.glencoe.com/sec/teachingtoday/educationupclose.phtml/47

Blogger.com is a great easy site that can be used to create any type of blog. In order to create a blog using this free site you must first have a Google.com user name, which not only allows you to use blogger.com but also other types of great features that can be used in the classroom, such as google email and google docs which is a free version similar to Microsoft office. A new feature gives bloggers the ability to link what they have done on google docs to a blog, which is very helpful in the classroom. For more information or access to these new sites go to www.google.com and create a user name.