Educational+Blogs


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Bobby Gasca- Suite 101 [|www.suite101.com] Suite 101 is one of the best sites that I found to be available to teachers for Educational Blogs. Suite 101 is an independent online magazine written and edited by professionals. There are over 150,000 different articles on many different subjects on this site from anything from business to education, and even technology. I found dozens of articles and Blogs on my area of teaching, industrial technology. There is an area for readers to Blog and make comments and discuss the topics on the bottom of each article. I found it to be very helpful for me when it comes time for me to be teaching a classroom.

Lauren Crossett- Art Techie [] Art Techie is a very helpful blog website for mainly art teachers all over. It has many blogs posted to art teachers giving them project ideas, cool new websites for more innovated projects on technology. I liked that it had conference listings, classroom blogs and wikis, design and illustration, games and simulations, and free tools and downloads to name just a few. My favorite blog was on copyright and how it affects the artist today. It gave many different ideas on what is copyright and when does the artist get into trouble. I liked to see all the ideas on this topic. This blog website has many good and different ideas from all over, helping you get better and new ideas for your classroom.

Leah Close- Edublogs [|www.edublogs.org] This is one of the best blog sites I found for educators. Edublogs hosts blogs for teachers, students, researchers, professors, librarians, administrators and anyone else involved in education. Through this site teachers can get their own students blogging in what they boast as a fuss free way. Teachers can also use their edublog as a fully functional web site that hardly looks like a blog at all. Lesson plans are easy to share with other bloggers with a place to leave feedback. Many teachers use it as a main communicating devise with their students. Their profile is complete with the academic daily calendar, assignments, student discussions, and games.

Chiquita Richmond-top 100 blogs [] The website was created to give educators, students, and administrator a chance to interact with other and share Ideas and facts about a variety of topics. The idea of the website it to categorize the information by subjects like technology and library resources. The informants let the viewer know what is effective and what complications can be avoided to educate better. People can also post their own blogs of experience to the educational field. The website invites all to get informed on the current controversies that raise attention to schools, teachers, and students. Another helpful tip is the Library site, which gives worldwide connections to information and enrolling in college.

Katie LaBorence- Blog Catalog [] The Blog Catalog has many different blogs available to teachers, parents, and students. It includes blogs for almost every level of education ranging from primary education to adult education. It also includes blogs for online education as well as alternative education. Having this many blogs available for all the levels of education is very efficient because almost anyone can log on and be apart of one of the blogs. With this website, there are blogs that students can do as assignments or just for fun. Parents are able to read and write about how to help their children with schoolwork. Parents are also able to talk to teachers on some of the blogs. Finally, teachers are able to talk with other teachers to get ideas for activities throughout the school year.

Veronica Vargas- School Blogs

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School blogs is a website designed by an elementary school teacher who wanted her students to share their opinions and thoughts about books they read in class. This site contains blogs about various books and also includes questions that the teacher asked regarding the novel they read. Since some students were not doing their reading assignment, their teacher thought a ‘user friendly blog’ would be a motivating factor to read. I feel that this website is quite essential for students to express themselves freely and share their opinions about what they are reading in class and be able to compare their ideas and interact with other students.

Sarah Tipton- 21 Classes [] The website 21 classes explains a lot about educational blogs and explains to students what an educational blog really is. Educational blogs can be very effective if they are used in the correct manner. If students continue to communicate on subject related issues the discussions can become very interresting. On the 21 classes website, it explains what different materials can be added to an educational blog, such as videos, pictures, media, and also allows one to create their own layout and design. The first step to educational blogs is to set up a user name and password to present when signing into the blog site. This helps others to know who you are and the blog you posted. Blogs may help students to speak more freely also, since they are not under the pressure of speaking in public or in the classroom. Entries made by students can also be made privately or publicly for others to read and view. If it is privately it only allows certain users to view it.

Ashlee Preston - Love to know-social networking [] This website helps teachers and the students to create a blog of anything in education. I think that this is a great web site to have the students to create their own blog because it has certain concerns what the teacher and the student(s) need to follow and plus in has the part where all the teachers has to follow the school policy in order for the students to create a educational blog. This website also gives good thing why it’s a good idea to publish a blog and it gives the students the chance to communicate or discuss with other students blogs.

Jennifer Hess- Teacher lingo [|Teacher's lingo] Teacherlingo.com is pretty nice, it has teachers from all over the world blogging on what they have gone through or experienced. They even talked about the meeting in principal’s office, to which boards are the best for the students. They talked about everything really, and also they talked about what they do for their lesson plans. It is really helpful to have other same career teacher that does something really different from what I would do. They really sit down and write out what they feel. They even post openings for a school in other country or in US. I have read some of the blogs and it is really helpful to me.

Aaron Porzelius Eledblog.com [] “Turning Phonics on its head” This website in my opinion is not really that good. I thought it was very unorganized. The home page was a little confusing at first; it had all these titles to click on without ever really stating what they were or what they were discussing. For a teacher or someone who hasn’t used the website before it would be hard to find a blog that was specifically addressing a certain issue. The only way to really find a blog on a certain issue is by process of elimination. The home page does give part of the original post under the title but sometimes it still isn’t clear what the post is about. The post I chose is on that is talking on whether or not phonics is the best way to teach kids how to read. Two people responded to this post, only one really gave a different view on the subject and even this wasn’t that big of a view change. With everything being so unclear and hard to find is why I really don’t care much for this website.

Christiana M. Strebe – Teacher blog community [] I found this site to be particularly helpful. This site has been divided into different forums. The site has discussion boards for new teachers, topics, news, and grades. It also has a general forum where you can chat about anything you want as well as a forum to talk about how your day went. The site teacher lingo makes it very easy to get help and ideas from other teachers if your having problems with a student or you simply need a little help with a topic your trying to teach and your looking for a fun and new way to teach it. It also has a forum dedicated to lessen plans.

Katia Petsas – Educational Blogs [] This is a website that anyone can use. My sister used it in high school for many of her classes. It is pretty simple and down to the point. It is easy to navigate and for others to read your blogs. As technology gets more advanced, school’s begin to use this technology to their advantage. Many schools have stopped using the old fashioned paperback notebooks to do their journaling in, and decided to upgrade to using their online computer skills in blogging. A lot of high schools have gotten a lot of use out of blogger.com. With it being a simple blog site, I would recommend it to others.

Joshua Faretta- Mathematics Learning [|http://mathematicslearning.blogspot.com] I found this site to be very interesting for Math teachers. It provides many different ways to teach certain lessons. It provides a wide variety of fun little lessons. Such as an online times table software. It teaches you an easier way to teach times tables by three. It also has an online puzzle maker that someone had posted. I can see myself using this type of blog in my future teachings. I like the way your able to see others perspectives on certain lessons. Some may not be good but others can be eye openers. I think it’s a good way to keep us rounded as teachers.

Connie Bernert- The Cool Cat Teacher Blog []

This site has links to upcoming workshops, most valuable posts, archived posts and many other links and exciting topics. It also has other educational blog rooms that you can choose from include a wide variety of topics for teachers. Under the Heading of Some Cool Blogs include 2 Cents Worth, Make a Difference, E-Learning Journeys, elearning post, elearning technology, and Think Like a Teacher to name a few of the many. This site seems to have all the questions and answers to anything and everything a teacher might inquire about. The site seems highly organized and well put together. This is definitely a site that I will be visiting again and again in my near future for advise and support from those more experienced then myself.

Chelsea Gill- This Week in Education [] This blog is called “This Week in Education.” This is by Alexander Russo. This blog is really helpful to teachers because it really gives recent information on things going on in education. There are many different blogs posted. It really helps keep teachers updated on what is going on or what is a new interesting topic in education. Most of the blogs posted are by Alexander Russo but some are also by Jonathon Thompson. Some examples of topics written about on this site include state graduation rates, new school rules in different areas and school violence along with many other topics.

Casey Sandoval- Teacher Lingo [] Educational blogs is a really good tool to use in the Education field. It is a tool that the teacher can use to help educate her students even when the teacher is not present. It is a way to help a student who is behind or a student who wants to get better at a subject. The student can use it while they are away from school and still get the feedback they need. It is a really good way to keep the students up to par especially over the summer and winter breaks. It keeps there brains active and the information fresh.

Tiffany Wrinkle-Educational Blog [] This is a blog run by the New York Student Union and the posts are about a number of topics but revolve around the education system in New York City. I think blogs are an amazing tool for people to learn about issues in education and other’s views on them. It is also a great tool to use to help your students express themselves, share their opinion with others, and learn how to read on and appreciate other student’s opinions. It is especially good to encourage students to really think about what they want to say because it is not just you as a teacher reading it, but the entire public has access.

Jake Kelley-Educational Blogs [] I felt that this site would be very helpful to a new teacher looking for a new means of motivating students to read and write. The site was filled with examples and tutorials on how a teacher can get started. It has a list of reasons why student blogging is very beneficial to the students. It brought up a good point; Students who lack the reading and writing skills they need to succeed also may lack the motivation to practice those skills. Many are motivated, however, to chat virtually with their friends. I feel that this is very true and many times classrooms carry on just accepting that some students will always be unmotivated. This site provides teachers with reasons why educational blogging is important along with means to get it started in their own individual classrooms.