WHY blog? HOW can blogging enhance teaching and learning?
Before creating your own blog, it's important to understand why, as educators, we should blog and how we might use blogs with our own students.
Working within a team, explore at least three sources from each of the categories below and craft a big poster that addresses the questions below. Your team will present your findings to the whole group.
- WHY should I use a blog to connect, network, and reflect?
- How can doing so help me GROW professionally?
- How might I use a blog to enrich my TEACHING?
- How can I use a blog to impact STUDENT learning?
Why Blog?
- National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) for Teachers, Administrators
- Read. Write. Think. Repeat., a blog post by Karl Fisch
- Blog Rules, an article published in EDTECH by David Warlick
- Judy’s Web 2.0 Notes, a blog post post from Judy's Web 2.0 Notes which explains the power of blogging
- Cool Tools: Blogging--an extensive map, created by Bernie Dodge, of personal, professional, and student blogging ideas
- 10 Ways to Use Your Edublog to Teach--a list from Edublogs
- Blog Vocabulary--a list of terminology associated with blogs
- 8 Ways Blogging Makes Me a Better Teacher, a blog post by Band Director, Joel
- Slideshow by an IBM employee--her ideas apply to educators!
- A cartoon:
How can I blog with Students?
Model Blogging Projects
Sample Educator Blogs

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