Blogs

According to Wikipedia: A **blog** is a website where entries are written in [|chronological order] and commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs.

Links to helpful sites for blogs in education.

 * Interesting article about using blogs in the classroom. http://www.edutopia.org/set-up-classroom-blog
 * http://edublogs.org/10-ways-to-use-your-edublog-to-teach/
 * [|Weblogs in Education] at Teachinghacks.com has ideas for using blogs in all content areas. There is so much here for anyone interested in educational blogging. A must see!

How to Start a Blog of Your Own

 * Our Teacher Pages now have Blogs available.
 * [|Edublogs] provides free blogs for education.
 * [|Blogger]
 * Ideas and How-to's for [|Blogging With Students]

Examples of Classroom Blogs:

 * http://www.mv.org/webpages/8thgradeteam/myblog.cfm Example of how to use our teacher pages for blogs.
 * [|Smith's 9th grade Blog Site] LVery impressive English classroom blog site.
 * http://www.smithenglish90708.blogspot.com/ Another neat 9th grade example.
 * Links to example [|Math Blogs]
 * [|Language Arts Blog] Examples

Grading student blogs:

 * This article from Tech Learning is about how a 5th grade teacher developed rubrics for his students. There are sample rubrics here as well. [|Tech Learning article.]