Professional Development with Blogs and Wikis

There is an article in the February 09 publication, Educational Leadership about using Blogs and Wikis to help aid in professional development.

Please click on the link below and read the article:

http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational_leadership/feb09/vol66/num05/Learning_with_Blogs_and_Wikis.aspx

What are your thoughts after reading this article?

Have you seen how WPS teachers are using blogs?

Mrs. Higgins and Mrs. Carmicheal are working together on this great project from Mrs. Carmichael's class. http://blogs.usd259.org/mhiggins

Mr. Ehret is using blogging with his students so they can express their views on various issues. http://blogs.usd259.org/jehret/

Mrs. Buranday is using blogging with her math students, sending them to different websites and then having them leave their opinions on those sites. http://blogs.usd259.org/buranday/

Mr. Reed at East is using blogging to gain perspective on his students' views about social studies in our world. http://blogs.usd259.org/areed/

Mrs. Bass is a WPS teacher that taught in Japan and is using blogging to communicate with East high students her experiences there. http://blogs.usd259.org/lbass/

Mrs. Ogborn is using blogging to have her students reflect on class readings and assignments, as well as get assignments started. http://blogs.usd259.org/sogborn/

Mrs. Mercer is using it with her WSTL students to reflect on all different types of technologies and their impact on our lives. http://blogs.usd259.org/

Mr. Niessen is using a blog as one way to correspond with several classrooms during a project about weather. http://blogs.usd259.org/wildweather/

Scholarship Website

Check out the website below,

http://www.collegescholarships.org/our-scholarships/blogging.htm

How would blogging in your classroom help students to apply for this scholarship once they are in college?

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Blogs in Plain English

This is a video about Blogging from Lee Lefever.

Blogging Resources

Blogging Articles:

· News article about teen writing and blogs
http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/top-news/?I=53663

· Tech Learning article, Students and Teacher Blogs that Succeed
http://www.techlearning.com/story/showArticle.php?articleID=196605183

· Tech Learning article, Writing with Weblogs
http://www.techlearning.com/db_area/archives/TL/2003/02/blogs.php

· A rubric for grading comments made by students
http://www.masters.ab.ca/bdyck/Blog/

Blogging Lesson Plans & Classroom Resources:

· Language Arts
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=942
http://www.education-world.com/a_tech/techlp/techlp055.shtml

· Math
http://www.math-videos-online.com/index.html

· Blogging Safety
http://outsidethecave.blogspot.com/2005/05/responsible-blogging-lesson-plan.html