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Blogging website built specifically for teachers. Teachers can create newsletters for parents and blogs for students specifically!

Edublogs is a free blogging network that lets students view posts by their teachers. It gives access to email, media, and other posts for the classroom availability to expand beyond school hours.

Edublogs.org is not only a platform for teachers to create blogs that invite participation from students and parents, but is also an environment for teachers to learn from other teachers through blogging.

Blogger is a website where you can create your own blog. It is a great way for teachers to create their own teacher blog

A teachers classroom blog for her first grade students. I thought this would make a good example for seeing what a classroom blog would look like and how it can be useful to the students and parents.

A good example of blog being used in the classroom. This first grade teacher uses hers to interactive and leave messages for the parents of her classroom.

Blogging is a new craze that is hitting the classrooms. This Strategy Guide describes the processes involved in composing blogs in the classroom, the process of writing regular posts, or entries, that are published online.

This resource lists ways in which to engage students with technology for writing. She used weekly blogs to engage her students in writing. The technology presented a real audience for their writing. These blogs helped improve the students writing and engaged them with technology.

I found this site interesting for me (Aaron Awesome Funkhouser) as a history/education major, this website uses historical information through technology.

I found this site interesting for me (Aaron Awesome Funkhouser) as a history/education major, this website uses historical information through technology.

This site is where you can create a FREE account to live blog, learn how to live blog, and use live blog tools.

This is a blog of ideas and practices on assessment

This is a blog of ideas and practices on assessment

This is a blog of ideas and practices on assessment

This page is a subset of a larger website that would be a great resource for teachers. This site lays out the information in a simple way that isn't overwhelming. It also gives you ideas of how to use the blogs.

Wiggio is a website is similar to facebook and twitter and you can work in groups easily, and it is a single website that brings many different aspects together in one simple website. My big campus is a website that makes it easy for teachers to collaborate with other teachers, students, as well as parents. On top of these, my big campus is also great at helping to create lesson plans, and track your students success. Goorulearning is a website that allows teachers and students to learn in new and fun ways. You can gear the quizzes and study guides for the specific grade you are teaching. Mrs. Cornejos blog is a great example of a blog that each person in our group could see using and even gearing our own blogs around. This blog is a great way to keep parents involved in what is happening in the classroom. Mrs. Anderson's website is an example of a wiki website and is similar to a blog and students can get involved as well.

How teachers and students can use blogs in the classroom.

This is a wonderful blogging site. In this blog they discuss how to teach digital citizenship, the good and the bad.

This blog post is a great resource for trying to find sources. It includes places to search, and how to determine if a source is credible

This is a blog by Amanda Dykes, a school technology coach. She uses her blog to share her teaching troubles and triumphs as well as ideas and thoughts about education.

This website gives great examples of other teachers websites and blogs. You can use these as helpful guides for your own blog or website

This is a free website for education blogs. What is cool about this is that it creates a "bubble" for your school district or university.

This is a blog post that incorporates case studies and the teachings of Kilpatrick and Dewey on the subject of project-based learning.

It's an introduction to learning about classroom blogs and why they can be beneficial to the classroom for not only the teacher but also the students.

I chose this site as a resource for chapter 8 because it is a great tool to use to incorporate technology in the classroom. I also really like it because you can use it on multiple devices (laptop, tablet, phone) and it's free.

This blog gives many excellent examples of lesson plans and ways to use technology in the Spanish classroom. You can also see that teachers are interacting with one another in a constructive way in the comments section.