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Kindergarten: http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=51141 Grade one: http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=1337 Grade Two: http://2mgems.blogspot.com/ Grade Four: http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=94924 Grade Five: http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=88116 Teacher Blogs: http://chalkdust101.wordpress.com/ More Class Blogs: http://lipskymatthews.blogspot.com/ and http://wwwmrshumphreys3d.blogspot.com/ and http://upperhouse.edublogs.org/

For Special Consideration - Especially for Teachers of Young Learners Flickr Storm: http://www.zoo-m.com/flickr-storm/ Read The Words (it reads the words...): http://www.readthewords.com/ Simplybox (organize web resources): http://simplybox.com/main example: URL: http://simplybox.com/embedded/?cid=21851) LetterPop (simple newsletter templates and tools): http://letterpop.com Moourl (url shortener): http://moourl.com Bubbleshare (image manipulation and more): http://www.bubbleshare.com/vozMe (embed spoken word - directions perhaps for non-readers in blogs etc.): http://vozme.comVocaroo (embed spoken word - directions perhaps for non-readers): http://vocaroo.com/File dropper (File Sharing and storage): http://www.filedropper.com/TinyPaste (share snippets of text via link): http://tinypaste.com/Good applications Gail. You have several of mine but some that I would like to add would be:1) Wordle - http://wordle.net - Effective and fun way to create word clouds, for introducing new topics and subjects, reviewing information, or just designing your world with words.2) Joggle - http://beta.joggle.com/ - Excellent tool for creating slide shows for student project presentations, for teaching multimedia lessons in class, or online presentations. You can embed movies straight onto your website. It is free and joggle hosts your movies.AND MY NUMBER ONE (For today anyway) - Jing - http://www.jingproject.com/ - Snap a picture of your screen, Record video of onscreen action, and share instantly over the web, IM, email, or embed straight onto your own website. THIS IS SO COOL! Jing is free and allows you to record screencasts, with audio, and save the files as a swf, or if you pay for the pro version, mp4 files. Jing also has automatic uploading capabilities with Screencast.com (So I guess I am recommending screencast.com too!) I am using jing to record lectures and upload to my website. This is very cool!

Middle School Teacher: A great mix of personal thoughts, ideas about education reform and practical tipsBetty's Blog: She's level-headed and yet passionate and full of both personal and practical wisdomCornerstone: Tons of practical ideas with a slightly cutesy perspectiveIt's Not All Flowers and Sausages: A blog filled with wit and humor, but often containing some sharp analysis of the systemBrazen Teacher: I connect well with this blog, because the author is as anti-standardization as I am, but she explains it in a much more creative style Science Teacher: One of the smartest bloggers around, a scientist with the soul of a poetCal Teacher Blog: Mr. Bibo is a man with wisdom, conviction and practical ideas. The blog has some real thought-provoking postsClif's Notes: If I needed one blog to keep me up to date on technology, it would be this.  It's like having a tech guru on my laptop all the timeReach for More / Aspira a Mas: One of the few teaching blogs out there with a Latina perspectiveThe Power of Educational Technology: A little less practical than Clif's Notes, but constantly thought-provokingThe Doc is In: He seems to blog about everything, but with a distinct mix of both authority and humilityCountdown to Teachhub: I wish I had this site when I was first starting out.  I felt like i constantly needed some practical tips and this site offers them. One of my favorite features is the YouTube writing prompts. In the Trenches: It's the kind of blog that I read when teaching feels a little lonely.

You should use assessment tasks that incorporate subversion - One of the worst things you can do is mandate posting on particular topics with particularly rigid frequency… you’ll over-assess & kill off exactly what blogs are good for: personal expression & exploration. By all means say that you’re expecting a post a week… or ever more, but let people approach this in ways that fit them and set tasks that allow for deviation and subversion. Never, ever, mention number of words!