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This is a good blog site for educators because most tech departments do not block it. It can be used to support class blogs with students and blogs with other educators.

Blog used as an outline for the preconference session at Closing the Gap PC-15 "Digital Literacies" with Denise DeCoste and Linda Bastiani Wilson.

October 2004 post listing some uses for blogs in the classroom.

Will Richardson's 7th and 8th graders read The Secret Life of Bees and were priveledge to have the author participate in their blog.  The result is a study guide for the book.

From Paul Hami's blog: Here's a quintessential free Web 2.0 application that consists entirely of user-generated content that is shareable, searchable, and often downloadable. As its name suggests, slideshare hosts slideshows; and anyone can create a free account and upload to slideshare. Uploads can include PowerPoint, pdf, or OpenOffice (odp) file formats. Uploaded files on slideshare can be tagged to facilitate topical searching. As well, slideshare facilitates comments, favorites, etc. It also provides forums for specific communities built around shared interests. This summer, slideshare became even more powerful by introducing the concept of "slidecasts". You are now able to upload audio commentary and/or musical accompaniment. The audio file must be hosted elsewhere on the net, but this isn't difficult to do, and there are several sites where audio files may be hosted free of charge. Our Media and MediaMax are two examples.

These juniors and seniors used a weblog to study the book The Secret Life of Bees and the author joined in on the discussion!

Word Web is a free comprehensive dictionary and thesaurus that can be used to look up words from within most programs. You simply click on an icon in your system tray to bring up the dictionary and thesaurus. (from Paul Hami's blog)

Example of a blog by a student in a writing class.

A math wiki for 5th grade.  "The purpose of this wiki is to display the learning of our fifth grade math class. The links are to blog entries about each subject. To get linked to, students must write an exceptional summary of the topic--one that would be helpful for anyone learning about it."

An example of a principal's weblog.

This free plug-in enables text in any Microsoft Word document to be read aloud. As a useful bonus, WordTalk also comes with a talking spell checker and thesaurus. The simplicity of WordTalk's toolbar makes it highly accessible, and the toolbar's functions are easy to configure for individual preferences. To further enhance accessibility, the software comes pre-programmed with keyboard commands. (--from Paul Hami's blog)