Blogistics

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.

Why blog? After participating in tonight’s ISTE Webinar titled Blogging for Beginners, I was inspired by the teachers who attended. All very curious how to implement blogging with students, I wanted to gather resources for them. First, I began crafting an email and simply copied and pasted URLs of several useful websites. One resource, a link to archived resources from the webinar, was not immediately available. So I saved the email to be sent at a later time. On my way home, it dawned on me to create a new tag for these resources – beg_blog – on my Delicious account. There is no reason to wait on one resource when it can be added to the list, along with other new resources, as they are found and deemed valuable. Taking it one step further, why not post the materials to a blog, invite these curious teachers to join up and chime in, and begin blogging about blogging in the classroom with students… all while learning how to use this tool and witnessing its power with the reading and writing connection.