Blogging

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 excellent intro from Teachers First]
 * 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....

**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. Elementary Danielle Rottenstein's 5th grade [|Knowledge is Power] [|Kids and Community] [|(Associated lesson plan information)] [|Ms. Provan's Class Blog] [|Second Grade Blog from Northeast School] [|Nelson's News] [|Hickory News] [|First Grade in the Whale Room] [|FictionFocus]: Book reviews by 3rd graders at South Hill School [|Booknook: Third graders' book reviews] [|Enfield School Library] [|Bauchner 5th Grade at BJM] [|Fall Creek Library] Secondary [|We Are Empowered] [|GlobalKids: ESOL at Dewitt Middle School] [|Leadership 101 at IHS] [|LACS Artroom] [|Faculty Forecaster at LACS]
 * ==**-Some Examples**==
 * Local:**


 * From the World:**


 * [|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]**
 * [|Montessori Seniors Class 2007]****Please 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.**
 * [|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** ||

-Blogs and Student Safety
[|Various resources from ayale's Delicious bookmarks] from David Warlick [|Here is a release form for ICSD student publishing]

-Blogs addressing education and technology.

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

-Finding blogs

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

-Tools for creating blogs:

 * [|Using Edublogs]
 * [|Using Blogmeister]
 * [|Using Wordpress]
 * [|Using Blogger]
 * Kidblog is designed for elementary and middle school teachers who want to provide each student with an individual blog.

-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]