Blogging in the Classroom

Using a blog as an aid in the classroom is one more way to enhance learning.  Do I agree?  The jury is still out on this resource for me.  I see that blogging can be an extension for writing, a useful tool to communicate with students.  The students would be able to communicate with each other as well as communicating with parents and other family members.  The down side, privacy.  Some of the blogs that I looked at shared biographies of the children in the teacher's class.  As a mother, this falls in the stranger danger category.  I know that there are safe guards that can be used.  What about the shy child that has a hard time commenting, blogging could be a safe area or one more pressure. 

I had a great time looking at other blogs,  I found myself pausing at blogs aimed at educators. 


http://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2009/04/blogs-in-education.html

Mr. Downs has created this blog with the intention of it being a place for him to write every day for half hour every day.  Below is a little snippet of some of the information he shares with others.

A blog is a personal website that contains content organized like a journal or a diary. Each entry is dated, and the entries are displayed on the web page in reverse chronological order, so that the most recent entry is posted at the top. Readers catch up with blogs by starting at the top and reading down until they encounter material they’re already read.

http://learninginmaine.blogspot.com

This may be one of the favorite blogs I found and I encourage you to visit this blog.  One part of this blog that was nice for me to take a minute and watch was the video presentation from Diana Laufenberg.  Worth your time.

http://edtechlife.com

This blog is a great resource for using technology in the classroom. Many links and very useful information.  I can spend hours learning from this blog and plan to do so.