Blogs (weblogs) are a great social media tool to communicate with the world, publish your work, and to interact with people around the world. According to Technorati.com (which is the Google of blogs), there are currently over 112.8 million blogs in the world today.
A blog is like your own personal soapbox from which you can shout your message out into the world. You can blog about anything: your cats, your life, or your hobbies. However, the best part about blogging is that if you generate interesting content, you can attract people who want to read your stuff. It’s the ultimate in self-publishing.
So, it makes sense that teachers are exploring ways to safely bring blogging into the classroom. Publishing work online in a blog gives students an authentic reason for writing. Why go through the writing process because your teacher told you to? Why not carefully revise and edit your work with the goal of publishing it online to share it with the world?
We started blogging in our classroom back in May 2006. Over the last few years, we’ve launched a few sites, published some student work, and basically experimented with technology in the classroom.
We are launching Blog.ClassroomTeacher.ca as the hub of our online learning experiments. Over the next little while, we’re going to be consolidating our work into our teacher-resource site, classroomteacher.ca and our student-resource site, yourclassroom.ca.
Blog.ClassroomTeacher.ca will be our online journal where we plan on sharing our experiences. By creating a home-base, hopefully, we’ll be able to network with other teachers and educators to share best-practices.
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1 6 Reasons To Get Your Students Blogging from United States
// Jun 6, 2008 at 12:43 am
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2 6 Reasons To Get Your Students Blogging | blog.classroomteacher.ca from United States
// Jun 7, 2008 at 3:27 am
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3 Classroom Teacher | ClassroomTeacher.Edublogs.Org from United States
// Jun 7, 2008 at 4:50 am
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4 Classroom Teacher « ClassroomTeacher.WordPress.com from United States
// Jun 8, 2008 at 3:04 pm
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5 Summer Break | blog.classroomteacher.ca from United States
// Jul 9, 2008 at 9:53 pm
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6 Classroom Blog Ranking - How Popular is Your Classroom Blog? | blog.classroomteacher.ca from United States
// Jul 29, 2008 at 2:09 am
[...] does your classroom blog rank in the blogosphere? Where does your class website rank? Is anybody even out [...]
7 Extra Things That You Can Do With a Self-Hosted WordPress Blog (that you can’t do with a Free WordPress blog) | blog.classroomteacher.ca from United States
// Aug 24, 2008 at 1:14 pm
[...] of teachers start their classroom blogs using a free WordPress blog or Edublogs account. And quite frankly, that’s the right place to [...]
8 Maintenance Mode - Hiding your school website while it’s under construction | blog.classroomteacher.ca from United States
// Aug 26, 2008 at 8:51 pm
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9 builders merchants leeds from Great Britain (UK)
// Jun 15, 2010 at 6:23 am
My sons school have been looking into this recently. It’s definately the way to go.
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