Springing Forward with Tech @ Springfield

What is it??

Blog: web log

“Blogs provide commentary on news or a particular subject; others function as a more personal online diary.” ~ Wikipedia

Blogs contain: text, images, links to other blogs and webpages, other media sources

Most important part of blogs: ability for readers to leave comments on a blog as a way of interacting with the bloggers thoughts and ideas

How many blogs are there you may ask? In Dec. 2007 there was an estimated 112 million blogs.

There is no denying it.  Blogs are everywhere!  I personally am quite the blog follower, and am totally hooked on a few.  And why? Because the writers of these blogs are sharing ideas that matter to me, that grasp my attention, and that provide inspiration and insight.  And what is even better, is that they aren’t unreachable super human superstars.  They are individuals who want to be collaborating with their readers, read our comments, and even comment back!

Here are some sites you can check out in answer to the question, why use blogs in the classroom.

http://mborden.edublogs.org/2007/10/22/should-students-blog-too/

http://www.assortedstuff.com/stuff/?p=70#more-70

http://mhetherington.net/blogs/?p=9

http://edublogs.org/10-ways-to-use-your-edublog-to-teach/

Some class and school examples:

http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=41233

http://hetherington0607.learnerblogs.org/

http://lewiselementary.org/

Check out some of the classroom blogs that are already happening in and around Springfield under Classroom blogs on the left!

Blogs of all kinds…

http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/anderson.cooper.360/blog/

http://3191.visualblogging.com/

http://www.ohjoy.blogs.com/

Check the list of blogs in the blog roll on the left hand side of the screen entitled, Blogs to check out.