Blogging

Blogging allows you to remove the walls of your classroom by giving you an online space to communicate with your students in an environment with which they are familiar. You may even find that students who never raise their hand or say a word in class will have a great deal to say in an online discussion. __Why Blog?__ [|Rationale for Educational Blogging] (Anne Davis) [|Blogging in their Own Words] (Karl Fisch, Arapahoe Highschool)

[|Blogger.com] - created by Google [|Edublogs.org] - for teachers [|Learnerblogs.org] - good to use if your students will be doing much of the creating.
 * Sites that allow you to create your own blog...for free**.

[|Web-logged] - a blog by Education Technology Consultant, Will Richardson. A great place to find out about the latest gadgets and websites. [|David Warlick] - David does a great deal of writing on education technology and has some interesting things to say. [|Alan November] - a prominent Education Technology Consultant [|Jeff Utecht] - an Education Technology Specialist who works at an American school in Shanghai. You'll find some great resources here. [|The Fisch Bowl] - Not only is there some interesting reading here, but along the bottom right, under "Class Blogs," there is a list of classroom blogs that will give you an idea of how they can be used. [|Chalkdust] - Patrick Higgins is Director of Curriculum for Humanities for a school district in New Jersey. [|Tech Dossier] - Patrick Higgins has enlisted educators from his district to share a blog to give various perspectives. I may be recruiting some of you in the near future... [|Cliotech]- Jennifer Dorman is a Staff Development Facilitator in the Central Bucks School District
 * Blogs by Education Technology Specialists who conduct various workshops around the country and the world.**