The primary purpose of blog is to facilitate interaction between a teacher and his or her students. This is possible because a blog is a dynamic tool which can be easily updated or transformed as necessary to meet the needs of a science or math class.
The integration of blog technology in a class requires an investment of time. Because of this commitment, additional evidence is needed to support the integration this technology in a science or math class curriculum.
Both wikis and blogs provide teachers with a a dynamic process for integrating Web 2.0 technology in their science and math classes. These two types of online tools offer students a more engaging process for learning.
Both are relatively easy tools which do not require teachers or students to learn any special program tools or computer skills. Their uses and applications are only limited by the vision and purpose for helping students learn.
A response to Hacker's opinion piece in the Sunday New York Times, "Is Algebra Necessary," which argues for its usefulness, calls for better teaching, while acknowledges the difficulties of making that happen. Links to other blog responses to Hacker's piece.
Curious how social media might benefit you as a math teacher? Check out mathtwitterblogosphere, which encourages math teachers to tweet and blog in order to "get your own creative juices flowing" and participate in a "world-class faculty lounge with colleagues who care about what they do."
Come see profiles of math teachers who use blogs and Twitter, learn about "how to take the leap" with those social media, and find recommendations of tweeps and bloggers to follow, categorized by academic level, or interests such as
arts and craft in the math classroom
games and gamification in math
interdisciplinary Work
modeling approach to teaching
standard-based grading
projects and rich tasks
technology in the math classroom
My Blog About Mathematics and Science as a PDF file on Scribd.com. Articles: Editing Equations on Web 2.0 Sites, Representing Scale in Mathematics, Nesin Mathematics Village in Turkey, A mathematician of prime numbers. A mathematician of topology. Flash game for teaching mathematics. From http://cmcallister.vox.com/
"Last week Tim Gowers, Cambridge University mathematician and open access advocate who led the recent boycott of Elsevier, announced an exciting new open access initiative for mathematicians on his blog. The project, called the Episciences Project, will make it super quick and easy to set up open access journals called "epijournals"."
A fabulous maths blog with a huge catalogue of Primary maths resources, many of these available to download as PDFs.
http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths
Math Mama is Sue VanHattum, a community college math teacher interested in all levels of math learning, and the mama of a young son. I'm entering the blogging world as I begin work on an anthology about learning math.