Educational+Blogs+for+the+Classroom

=** Blogging Resources **=

** __Free Blogging Resources__ **
[|TeacherLingo] is a great place for a teacher blog:"Teacher Lingo is a growing teacher community that connects teachers abnd educvators from every level. //It's a place where teachers can share ideas, ask questions, learn from each other, or even vent about the school day."// [|//Edublogs//] hosts hundreds of thousands of blogs for teachers, students, researchers, professors, librarians, administrators and anyone and everyone else involved in education. //Edublogs are completely free, without any advertising, and come with 100MB of free upload space (easily extended to 3 Gig) and a heap of great features// //We also cater for schools and universities looking to create, manage and control blogs at their own domain, with all the features of Edublogs. We call it [|Edublogs Campus]////.//


 * Blogger.com** through google is another free resource but many schools block this site


 * Blogmeister.com** is another blogging site that is frequently blocked at schools due to adds and links

**__ General Blogging Information and Helpful Sites __**

 * This page was designed to provide you some resources if you wanty to get started using blogs for yourself or with your students: [|Blogs in Education]:


 * Article about Blogging in the classroom: [|Educause]

Not sure what others are talking about when they mention blogs? Read this article for more info: [|Teaching tools]
 * Blogging Basics: Creating Student Journals on the Web Tutorial by Lorrie Jackson:[|Education World]


 * Rubric for assessing student blogs: [|Blogging evaluation]:


 * This paper explores the importance of literacy and storytelling in learning, and then juxtaposes these concepts with the features of blogs. The paper also reviews examples of blogs in practice. [|The Educated Blogger]

This is a very helpful site for all teachers, not just those looking for blogging. [|So You Want to Teach]

**__ Classroom Blog Examples: __**

 * [|Fourth Grade Richards Elementary School, Whitefish Bay, WI]


 * [|Summer Reading Camp]


 * [|Eleventh Grade English Teacher and Student Blogs]


 * [|Ninth Grande Biology and AP Biology Class blog]


 * [|Mr. Mundorf's Class, Marco Island, Fl]


 * [|Middle School: The Clem 2005]