What IS a Blog and Why Teachers should be interested

http://www.glencoe.com/sec/teachingtoday/educationupclose.phtml/47

If you are interested in learning more about blogs and how they can integrate technology into your classroom, this link is a must for you to read.

I copied this paragraph directly from this link:

Educational Benefits of Blogs

In addition to providing teachers with an excellent tool for communicating with students, there are numerous educational benefits of blogs. Blogs are:

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  Highly motivating to students, especially those who otherwise might not become participants in classrooms.
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  Excellent opportunities for students to read and write.
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  Effective forums for collaboration and discussion.
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  Powerful tools to enable scaffolded learning or mentoring to occur.

Follow this link to another site about blogging. It is titled "Blogging Basics: Creating Student Journals on the Web."

http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/techtorial/techtorial037print.shtml

It is a step-by-step guide to setting up a classroom blog. This is an easy to read, easy to do reference.

I am not sold on blogger.com as a source for classroom blogs. The ability to skip around to different blogger sites by just clicking on the NEXT BLOG button on the top righthand corner is awfully dangerous. You never know just what your students might see or read!

We are studying different blog sites to find one or two to recommend to PSD teachers. If you know of any please leave your comments!

Instructional Technology would be interested to know if there are any teachers using blogs with their students this year.