The first school, or class, that I found that uses a blog is in Noel, Missouri. It is a 6th grade class at Noel Elementary School taught by Joe McClung. The blog seems to be just updates of current happenings going on in the classroom, such as lessons and projects. The teacher has also placed resource links on the side of the blog, I'm sure for the students to use on homework and such. An interesting touch, I think, is a list on the right side that includes all of the other classrooms in different states that have visited Mr. McClung's class blog. There is also a live video feed at the top of the blog, I suppose that allows the students and other schools to see what is happening live in the classroom. (I couldn't get the video to play on my computer?) It seems to be a very interesting and lively blog!
Picture by: Mr. McClung, of some of the students in his class. This is what I gathered from the blog post.
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The next use of blogs I found is at Barber Middle School in Acworth, Geogia. It seems that this school has a blog set up for many of the faculty members. The blog in particular that I am going to look at is Mrs. Smith-Dale's. She teaches 8th grade Language Arts. Her blog is set up like many of the other faculty members. Basically, the blog includes the class assignments for each class day. There also appears to be directions for the work and also some notes included in a few of the blogs. I can see where this would be very useful in the schools. So many kids go to school and rarely right down their class or homework assignments, and this could be a very handy tool when they forget to do those things. All you have to do is to log on to your teacher's blog and there is everything you might have forgotten to write down. There are actually seperate links on the sides set-up for easy access to homework assignments and also test schedules. I really like this use of a blog!
This is a picture of the outside of Barber Middle School.
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Hope you find this info interesting, and also hope you enjoy looking at these other blogs. Have a great night!
Thank you for visiting our blog! Glad to see you took sometime to give it a good look over. Your right, I do use the blog for daily updates and happenings. I also like to use it as a forum for communication for my students, their parents, and other schools from around the country and world. We also use a social network called Ning. The link is below you can check it out. We use this one to post assignments and news that is relevant to our class. As soon as we start back to school (once the ice melts) you can view what we do in class from the live feed. The player is from a site called ustream.tv....you might have to download a plug-in to view the feed. Once again, thanks for the interest in our class.
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