Blogging Teachers

Blogging has become a favorite and useful tool for many teachers. I found two teachers using their blogs to support their classrooms below:

Ms. Osborne's class in Miami has a blog, http://www.butlerville.net/4a/, where she lists activities for her class on a weekly basis. She must have an ocean or dolphin theme going on in her classroom because she has this adorable picture of a dolphin on her website. Each Friday she makes a post to her class blog and updates the students and teachers on the upcoming week. She lists all the spelling words, vocabulary words and even gives the dates for the upcoming tests. At the beginning of school she posted a blog welcoming her class and telling them how she was looking forward to the new school year.

I found a larger blog created by teacher Bill Gaskins from South Carolina titled "Blogging On The Bay, http://bloggingonthebay.org/. His blog is much more extensive and detailed than that of Mrs. Osborne's classroom. A very interesting feature on Mr.Gaskins' blog is the live feeder column which shows the location of his most current hits to his blog. This teacher is on the technology band wagon and is out there to get his students to learn what is new and innovative. As his blog states, he is "creating a path to techno-constructivist learning in the classroom." His blog also includes comments and posts from other teachers who are discussing technology issues and is a great resource for us newbies.