A blog is a unique web site that consists of entries, or posts, which are usually arranged in reverse chronological order. Posts are typically a short paragraph of text that may include a link, photo, or embedded video. Many blogs allow the reader to leave a comment about a post in order to encourage online discussions where people can participate at their leisure.

Below are some resources about blogging that we find serve as motivators to help us brainstorm ways to use blogs in the classroom.
Good news for bloggers: http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/top-news/?i=53663;_hbguid=e0da166a-2d66-434d-9c7c-01286ec3b126

Blog Basics
What is a Blog?
How to Blog: A Beginner's Blog Publishing Guide
The Weblog Project
Using Blogs to promote Authentic Learning in the Classroom
Blogging for Dummies

Free Online Blog Hosting Sites
Blogger
Edublogs **19 page Step-By-Step PDF Tutorial **Website for edublog set-up
Dairyland
TypePad
Wordpress

Free Server Side Blog Programs (Require a download)
Greymatter
Moveable Type

D211 Teacher blogs
Fremd Technology Coach Blog
FHS E101-What We Did Today (Nicole LaBeau)
FHS E102-What we did plus
SHS AP English Language and Composition (Darrell Robin)
FHS E319 Blog (Sabra Gerber)
FHS Art (Jerry Cargill)
Weidig's World (Trish Weidig)
CHS E319 Blog (Kristina Veluz)
CHS AP HUGE BLOG (Ms. Serrano)
PHS Bio 138 (K Andrianopoulos)
Math in Real Life(Jim Nowak)
Taking Care of Business (Patti Dobbins)

Other Blog Sites of Interest
Believe it or not, http://lewiselementary.org/ is a blog!
AP Calculus 2007 - 2008 (An amazing classroom blog!)
Speaking of History (Eric Langhorst)
2 Cents Worth (David Warlick)
Metanoia (Ryan Bretag)
Strength of Weak Ties (David Jakes)
Weblogg-ed (Will Richardson)

A wiki on Blogging! http://il-tce2008.wikispaces.com/Blogging

Suggestions (Add your ideas!)

• Read lots of blogs to get a feel for how to blog and how other educators are using blogs. You will most likely find you do not have the time to read everything every day. So...
• Use an RSS feeder to bring blogs to you! (e.g., www.bloglines.com)
• Have a student be a scribe everyday to record daily work. (expertvoices.blogspot.com) Post a comment and respond about this process on our blog.
• Blog as a certain person in history and have other students ask questions.
• Create a podcast and post that to the blog and have students comment.
• Create a challenge page for bloggers, e.g., math problem challenge
• Have students use your blog but have them bring in other information with links to these sources.
• What are your management rules? You have to make decisions on this. Perhaps it is good to get students to help establish the rules!
• Provide specific instructions as to how to do things. Check this out for an example of this portal. http://ci212-06.21classes.com
• Try labeling the blog posts if you want to keep track of how many students are posting, i.e., have students label their posts as numbers.

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