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This page is a new, experimental class at Bentley University that Mark Frydenberg's is teaching. Anyone can follow the class through the class blog and through Ustream Videos that are posted on the website. The class is Web 2.0: Technology, Strategy, and Community. The focus of the class is how he learned about Web 2.0, started using it as a knowledge management tool. It also describes how he uses Web 2.0 for professional development.

Great for students and teachers. You can communicate with other classes in the same grade. The teacher is the manager of the student blogs for it is very safe. There is also advance privacy available. The students can upload text, photos, and videos. Easy and fun!

Teachers can host and manage blogs for your students, use a Class Homepage to communicate with students, review capabilities of entries, and it offers advanced privacy. Students get fully featured blogs to upload text, photos, or insert videos, fun learning experience, customizable visibility and comment settings, and no e-mail address required.

Whole Brain Teaching guides teachers in the use of brain-based techniques to make classroom management fun and learning enjoyable for both students and teachers.

This site has tons of information for those wanting to use blogs in the classroom. The blogs are geared specially for anyone in the field of education. You can find tips on how to manage your blogs and how to get students involved.

This is a cool platform for those who would like to experiment with classroom blogs. I liked it for my students because unlike other platforms like Blogger and Word Press, the students do not have to have an email account to sign in.

You may have seen this before, but I thought it would be worth it to look at the site again from the PD perspective.