Blogistics

If you would like to begin lurking in the blog world, your time will be well spent with either of these blogs:

Janni Black – Instructor from ISTE Webinar Blogging for Beginners
web20intheclassroom.blogspot.com

Vicki Davis – Cool Cat Teacher Blog
coolcatteacher.blogspot.com

Use Google Reader to aggregate new information posted to the blogs you subscribe to.

The Journal recently published an article titled, Avoiding the 5 Most Common Mistakes in Using Blogs with Students by Ruth Reynard, Ph.D. I think much of the article highlights best teaching practices. What do you think?

Edublogs offers great information for blogging educators through their blog, The Edublogger. How will you use a blog with students… whole class? individual blogs? Check out Tips On Blogging with Students.

Will your students need an email account to blog for your purposes? If yes, do you see this work-around as a possible solution?

Creating Student Accounts Using One Gmail Account

This site is produced by the Department of Education and Training with the Government of Western Australia. Nice resources are listed on this page under the title, Blogs in Education.

Check out authentic classroom blog examples on this site. Did you find a good one? Post a comment and share your thoughts.

If you are a Delicious user, you can access my blogging resources through my Delicious site. My username is heathermcc – add me to your network. The tag common to relevant blog resources is beg_blog.