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Explore Blogs for Learning and Teaching

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WHY blog? HOW can blogging enhance teaching and learning?

Before creating your own blog, it's important to understand why, as educators, we should blog and how we might use blogs with our own students.

Working within a team, explore at least three sources from each of the categories below and craft a big poster that addresses the questions below. Your team will present your findings to the whole group.

WHY should I use a blog to connect, network, and reflect?
How can doing so help me GROW professionally?
How might I use a blog to enrich my TEACHING?
How can I use a blog to impact STUDENT learning?

Why Blog?

National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) for Teachers, Administrators
Read. Write. Think. Repeat., a blog post by Karl Fisch
Blog Rules, an article published in EDTECH by David Warlick
Judy’s Web 2.0 Notes, a blog post post from Judy's Web 2.0 Notes which explains the power of blogging
Cool Tools: Blogging--an extensive map, created by Bernie Dodge, of personal, professional, and student blogging ideas
10 Ways to Use Your Edublog to Teach--a list from Edublogs
Blog Vocabulary--a list of terminology associated with blogs
8 Ways Blogging Makes Me a Better Teacher, a blog post by Band Director, Joel
Slideshow by an IBM employee--her ideas apply to educators!
The Gen Y Guide to Web 2.0 at Work
View more presentations from Sacha Chua.
A cartoon:
Every Teacher Should Have a Blog
View more presentations from Richard Byrne.

How can I blog with Students?

Blogs in the Mathematics Classroom
Writing with Blogs in Math Class
What Blogging Is Not, a blog post by Will Richardson
What's a Blog?, a list ideas from educator Karl Fisch
21st Century Learning, a bulleted list of ideas
Blogger to Build Community, a list of ideas for using various web tools, mainly Google applicaitons, with blogs.
Introduction to Web 2.0 Tools, a list of ideas for educational blogging
Create a portfolio. The video below explains step-by-step how to create a teacher portfolio.