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This is a nice site illustrating the benefits of student blogging linked to research findings.

interesting blog post from an early childhood perspective - also interesting reply to the blog post at the bottom of the page

Some things for us to try with our infant blogs. I like this idea the best Virtual Volunteers: Linda Yollis has come up with the idea of calling on parents to be virtual volunteers on a roster basis. Rather than helping students in the classroom, they can assist online by replying to students and engaging in conversations.

a student blog -- from what school? Jan 2011

good suggestions of blogs to follow - one from Jeff Utecht who is coming to us in the next school year for the COTAIL course

May find some helpful ideas for the infants and their classroom blogs

"The short answer to that question is that no, a person should never publish a poem on one's own blog/site that's not in the public domain unless permission has been secured (and is included in the post). The true answer is the one you've discovered for yourself -- people do it all the time. The grey space between the short answer and the true answer is the digital citizenship that many Poetry Friday bloggers try to teach by example. If we can't get permission for the poem, we post part of it and link to the site where we found it. Or we link to the book it is from, so that our reproduction of the poem is a form of advertising for the author."

Great comment starters for students learning to blog

"The main YIS website is, and will continue to be, a place to display important information about the school. The learning hub is different, it is a collaborative space intended to host communication and dialogue. Therefore at the centre of the learning hub are the students' own individual websites . These websites are a place for the students to host their projects and ideas. They serve as weblogs (blogs) and digital portfolios. The students will design and adapt their own sites to suit these different functions and will be encouraged to explore and experiment with a variety of digital tools as this project develops."

Why not subscribe to our very own TechXplorer, Louise Phinney! She is blogging about what she does with tech at Tampines & AMK.

winner of the best class blog in the edublog awards

list/links to K-12 education blogs by subject areas, e.g., math, science, literacy, physical ed, music, art, etc.

"Keith Schoch is a veteran professional educator. He shares his thoughts and expertise with colleagues through three blogs: Teaching that Sticks, Teach with Picture Books, and How to Teach a Novel"

"The blog of a teacher educator discussing poetry, children's literature and issues related to teaching children and their future teachers."

List of good blogs from Scholastic

Great blog post about a Grade 1 classroom and their first day of school. They connected with people in 3 different places around the world. Awesome stuff.

Canadian teacher, turned American tutor, Laurie Laurendeau, found herself being asked by parents about various ways in which they can help their children at home with Math concepts.  So she started a blog to address many of these questions.  Laurie targets parents of students in Kindergarten to Grade 3, and writes a new blog each week and covers all the strands of Math (Number Sense, Measurement, Computation, Geometry, Problem-Solving).