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?

Make sure your comment has at least 3 descriptive sentences. Also, don't forget to respond to at least one persons comment.

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