K12

Darlene Lewis
EDM310-501
Spring 2008


The first blog site I found was an 11th grade teacher/ student blog. The name of the blog site is Free-Range Thinking and it consists of a teacher and students from Northridge, California. The teacher uses this blog site in many ways. He basically uses his site to communicate with his students in his english/ literature class. He uses his site to post homework assignments and allows the students to respond back to anything that he post on the site. He also post study guides to test that he plans on giving to students and a welcome back greeting for the next school year.

The second blog site I found concerns a 1st grade classroom and their teacher, who uses this site to post everyday experiences within her class or classroom. This is a very good way for parents to keep up with what’s going on in their child’s classroom. The teacher uses this website to tell about and post pictures of field trips that the class has taken. Other than field trips, the teacher uses the website to get feedback from others that are outside of the classroom. She also has pictures of her students doing hands-on activities in her classroom.

In other K-12 classrooms, other teachers also use blog sites to post homework assignments. Not only are some blog sites used to post homework assignments, but also in-class assignments. Students use blog sites to communicate with each other about homework or in-class assignments. Some classrooms use blog sites to post essays or pictures on a particular subject. For example, a teacher may post pictures of her students interacting with each other in their science lab on a project.

Blog sites may also be used to share with others all over the world. Some sites are used to tell what you learn outside of the classroom. You then bring what you learned back in the classroom by posting it on a blog site. Blog sites are also used as a reference when needed for educational purposes in the classroom. Using this type of technology in a classroom setting can be both beneficial to the teacher and the students.


http://supportblogging.com/Links+to+School+Bloggers

http://lsculp.edublogs.org/

http://sarahpuglisi.wordpress.com/