Laura and Ed
BlogLog: Personal
BlogLog: Professional
- Adjunct Central: Career and Pedagogical Advice for Part-Time/Temporary College Faculty
- Bright Moments: The Blog of the Redwood Jazz Alliance
- CommonThreads in NYC: A Conference Presentation Blog
- Lead by Example: Brandi Caldwell's Consultant Page
- Monaco Restoration Project Blog
- Polar Science 2006 (Edublog Award Winning site in which students interact with field scientists in Antarctica.)
- Practicing Technology Step by Step: The ATI2007 Yearbook
- RWP's Advanced Technology Institute 2008
- Western Massachusetts Writing Project Online Newsletter
BlogLog: Pedagogical
- Mrs. Wagner's Kindergarten Blog (Documentation of the Kindergarten year with lots of photo essays and information for parents about what students are learning.)
- Mrs. Perry's Fourth-Grade Blog (Provides lots of ideas about how to use a blog in a fourth grade classroom—The blog ends in May of 2006.)
- Steve Catton's Room Five Site (Okay, so this is really a website, but it does offer nice examples of how to publish student work and inform parents about what is going on at school.)
- Mr. Watson's Class Pages (An Technology/English teacher structures course assignments and student responses in a blog with lots of links to explore.)
- Holly's Year 7 School Work Blog (An Auckland student records her 2007-2008 school work.)
- Academy World English and History Blog
- BaxterBlog LHS: February 2007 (A high school teacher’s blog that includes short story podcasts by students as well as writing prompts and students’ responses.)
- Building Bridges: Peninsula School's Digital Storytelling Blog
- Critical Writing Text Review Central
- Derek McCoy's Critical Writing Internship Blog
- EHS AP Lit: Recent Assignments
- Harriet Watson's Digital Storytelling Blog
- Integrated English Recent Assignments
BlogLog: Educators on Blogging in Education
- The Tech Savvy Educator
- Blog of Proximal Development (An exploration of blogging communities in education.)
- Bud the Teacher: Inquiry and Reflection for Better Teaching
- Classroom Displays (Ideas, best practices, and celebrations of classroom displays world wide.)
- EdTech Journies (by teachers for teachers)
- EdTech Gold Rush (Resources addressing "educational technology, information literacy, low threshold and open source applications, and implementation in the K-12 classroom.")
- Teachers Teaching Teachers (A weekly webcast repository hosted by the National Writing Project's savviest techie.)
- Weblogg-ed (Will Richardson’s blog on applications for technology in K-12 classrooms.)
- WordPress Repair Kit (Education Fact and Fiction)
- Moving at the Speed of Creativity (Wesley Fryer advocates for the use of technology in the “learning revolution.”)
- Megan's Blog Desk (The blog is a resource for teachers who are interested in blogging. It has links to many examples and is set up as a workshop for teaching teachers.)
Bloging Resources
1-Question Interview--Index Page
ProBlogger Darren Rowse "asked 14 of {his} favorite bloggers what they’d do differently if they were starting their blog again today. Their responses were varied" and are available on the index page linked above.
50 Great Widgets for Your Blog
Helpful, fun, and/or sexy additions for your blog: painter-a-day service, world timeclocks, etc.
Blogs in Plain English
A YouTube video demystifying blogs.
CreativeCommons
Free artwork, music, and tools.
Drupal
"Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Tens of thousands of people and organizations have used Drupal to power scores of different web sites, including community web portals, discussion sites, corporate web sites, intranet applications, personal web sites or blogs, aficionado sites, E-commerce applications, resource directories, and social networking sites."
EduBlogs
This free blogging platform bills itself as "the largest education community on the Internet."
Habits of Highly Successful Bloggers
ProBlogger Darren Rowse lists his readers' responses to the one-question interview he posed to "14 of {his} favorite bloggers."
Feed2Podcast.com
The dotcom makes me think that this product probably isn't free, but it enables bloggers to have people listen to their blogs rather than just reading them. It may prove useful.
MediaMaster
MM bills itself as "the best music experience on the web for accessing, listening and sharing your music collection." It allows you to upload your music and/or radio station to your blog so that you or others may listen to selections from your collection anywhere you can get an Internet collection. This one looks like a feebie to me.
Support Blogging
As "an opportunity for students, teachers, administrators, parents, and others to help promote an understanding of the benefits of educational blogging," SupportBlogging! is an invaluable resource offering linked lists of blogs, bloggers, and blog builders.
A YouTube Video by Teachers for Teachers
WordPress
Free blogs and blogging help.
ProBlogger Darren Rowse "asked 14 of {his} favorite bloggers what they’d do differently if they were starting their blog again today. Their responses were varied" and are available on the index page linked above.
50 Great Widgets for Your Blog
Helpful, fun, and/or sexy additions for your blog: painter-a-day service, world timeclocks, etc.
Blogs in Plain English
A YouTube video demystifying blogs.
CreativeCommons
Free artwork, music, and tools.
Drupal
"Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Tens of thousands of people and organizations have used Drupal to power scores of different web sites, including community web portals, discussion sites, corporate web sites, intranet applications, personal web sites or blogs, aficionado sites, E-commerce applications, resource directories, and social networking sites."
EduBlogs
This free blogging platform bills itself as "the largest education community on the Internet."
Habits of Highly Successful Bloggers
ProBlogger Darren Rowse lists his readers' responses to the one-question interview he posed to "14 of {his} favorite bloggers."
Feed2Podcast.com
The dotcom makes me think that this product probably isn't free, but it enables bloggers to have people listen to their blogs rather than just reading them. It may prove useful.
MediaMaster
MM bills itself as "the best music experience on the web for accessing, listening and sharing your music collection." It allows you to upload your music and/or radio station to your blog so that you or others may listen to selections from your collection anywhere you can get an Internet collection. This one looks like a feebie to me.
Support Blogging
As "an opportunity for students, teachers, administrators, parents, and others to help promote an understanding of the benefits of educational blogging," SupportBlogging! is an invaluable resource offering linked lists of blogs, bloggers, and blog builders.
Warlick, David F. Classroom Blogging. 2nd ed. Thousand Oaks, California: Corwin Press, 2007.
This book provides practical, step-by-step advice for teachers about using free web services to establish blogs, wikis and podcasts for classroom use. Warlick’s Blog, Exactly 2 Cents Worth, http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/ has many links to help teachers explore reading/writing/multimedia publishing options available on the web. Among these is http://supportblogging.com/Educational+Blogging
A YouTube Video by Teachers for Teachers
WordPress
Free blogs and blogging help.
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