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Karen LaBonte

Kidblog.org - Blogs for Teachers and Students - 3 views

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    Kidblog.org is designed for elementary and middle school teachers who want to provide each student with their own, unique blog. Kidblog's simple, yet powerful tools allow students to publish posts and participate in discussions within a secure classroom blogging community. Teachers maintain complete control over student blogs.
The0d0re Shatagin

100 Seriously Cool Classroom Blogs for Teaching Ideas & Inspiration | Online Classes - 27 views

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    Some ideas, examples and resources on how to use blogs
anonymous

Langwitches » Blogging - 2 views

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    Collection of tips and curriclum for blogging in the classroom with students.
Meredith Stewart

Books and Bytes - 0 views

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    Blog from last year's 6th grade Language Arts class, includes descriptions of projects/activities and student reflection on activities. Lots of information about using Web 2.0 technology in the LA classroom.
Leslie Healey

Education Needs a Digital-Age Upgrade - NYTimes.com - 17 views

  • What if, indeed. After studying the matter, Ms. Davidson concluded, “Online blogs directed at peers exhibit fewer typographical and factual errors, less plagiarism, and generally better, more elegant and persuasive prose than classroom assignments by the same writers.”
  • Ms. Davidson cites the elite Socratic system of questions and answers, the agrarian method of problem-solving and the apprenticeship program of imitating a master. It’s possible that any of these educational approaches
  • A classroom suited to today’s students should deemphasize solitary piecework. It should facilitate the kind of collaboration that helps individuals compensate for their blindnesses, instead of cultivating them. That classroom needs new ways of measuring progress, tailored to digital times — rather than to the industrial age or to some artsy utopia where everyone gets an Awesome for effort.
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  • students accountable on the Web
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    Coherent, concise assessment of the reactionary nature of school, not "learning"
Adam Babcock

Better Book Titles blog - 11 views

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    Note: some of the titles are a little nsfw, so use the website in the classroom with caution.  Know what titles you want to use and perhaps don't leave students to wander on their own.
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