student and teacher blogs

In many places people use a blog basically as an online journal. It can be used to create discussions among members of a class, share questions, post projects, and pictures. The possibilities for using blogging in education are endless.
Schoolblogs.net Network was created by an elementary teacher who saw the power of the blog when using this tool in class during literature circle discussions.This is a great method to keep each individual student attentive. Instead of students who did not do their reading assignments and came unprepared for circle, we found that the students were prepared for their literature circle. Also, the reluctant reader found blogging a motivating factor to read. The student who may be too timid to “speak up” during regular group times, found blogging as an outlet to share their opinions or thoughts of students who are non participants in classroom discussion time.
There are many free blogging tools on the Internet but many will easily link to inappropriate sites not suitable for children. Its a strive to make the blogs both teacher and student friendly to help with discussions around the world. www.schoolblogs.net/

As mentioned in our presentation, the rate at which new blogs are being created each day is estimated to be 175,000. Some of those blogs are automatically generated and are essentially spam right from the start. And of course not all of those blogs that are created by even the well-intentioned will be maintained over the long-term. For the source of this information and to find other interesting facts and charts about blogs all throughout the virtual realm, check out what David Sifry, CEO and founder of Technorati has to say in his State of the Blogosphere, August 2006.