Blogs+FOR+Teachers

Here is a list of blogs for teachers. Feel free to edit this page to add your own blog or a link to a blog you follow! (Thanks to Shelley Paul for providing a [|Creative Commons] license on her site to allow sharing of this information.)

> There are 249 comments on this post as of March 10, 2010. You don't have to read them all - says something about the provocative nature of the post, though! **** > A third grade teacher describes a "new" kind of Sustained Silent Reading. **** > This is an example of a " [|Scribe Post] ," as "invented" by calculus teacher Darren Kuropatwa, in which a student (8th grader in this case) reviews the classroom learning for the day or week. The teacher sets guidelines for the quality of work and students who exceed the requirements have an opportunity to be nominated into the " [|Scribe Hall of Fame] ." **** > Vicki Davis talks about the realities of teaching in a society where every cell phone is a recording device. **** > Anne Davis, an edublogging pioneer from Georgia State University, has been blogging with elementary school students since 2002. In this post, she enumerates her reasons for blogging with students. **** > A proposal for getting beyond the tools to the teaching and learning. **** > The author of this post is a fourteen-year-old. The [|Students2.0] blog is collaboratively written by a group of high schoolers from across the U.S. and beyond. These outspoken, articulate students have garnered a huge following in just a few weeks of publishing. **** > High school librarian Joyce Valenza shares highlights from her presentation for senior English classes on how to stop making miserable PowerPoint presentations.Good points and good resources. **** > This post was written by an at-risk fifth grader who struggled with writing and school success in general. Anne Davis shares it as an example of the importance of comments in blogging. **** > Will Richardson takes a break from "blog-vangelizing" to ask a question about plastic grocery bags. **** > Andy Carvin responds to a nerve-striking "humor" article in Wired Magazine. **** > An argument about the ways in which the current education system and adolescent culture discourage creative thought. (If this interests you, you may want to view Sir Ken Robinson's TED Talk: [|Do Schools Kill Creativity?] ). **** > Award-winning elementary blog about an unexpected guest. Be sure to click the duck to read the students' stories. ****
 * 1) **** **dy/dan (Mr. Meyer):** [|Why I Don’t Assign Homework]
 * 1) **** **Mrs. Edmison's Class:** [|Questions for One of Our Favorite Authors: Grace Lin>>] Third grade students receive a special blog comment from a beloved author answering their questions about writing. ****
 * 2) **** **Mark’s Edtech Blog:** [|Is this SSR 2.0?]
 * 1) **** **SP-817 Math Blog:** [|Boeun's Scribe for December 4th]
 * 1) **** **CoolCatTeacher:** [|Spies Like Us]
 * 1) **** **EduBlog Insights (Anne Davis):** [|A Rationale for Educational Blogging]
 * 1) **** **Discourse About Discourse:** [|The Ripe Environment]
 * 1) **** **Students 2.0:** [|Teaching Brevity]
 * 1) **** **NeverEnding Search:** [|PowerPoint Reform - A First Chapter]
 * 1) **** **Patrick's Update:** [|5th Grade]
 * 1) **** **Weblogg-ed:** [|Why Can't We Do This?]
 * 1) **** **Learning NOW:** [|An Open Letter About Cyberbullying]
 * 1) **** **Wandering Ink:** [|How To Prevent Another Leonardo Da Vinci]
 * 1) **** **Duck with a Blog:** [|Second graders Write About Our Missing Duck]

Other blogs....

Here is a link to the blog I write as part of my coursework for my graduate program in instructional media: [|Technology in Math Education]