How Teachers Use Blogs

The Blog that I have found to like the most is the link to the educational Blogs. I found this to be a very useful site because it was easy to find Blogs that really related to what it is we are trying to learn in this course, and provided great examples of different ways that teachers can utilize Blogs in their classroom for the benefit of their students and their students parents. I believe that Blogs are a great way to remind not only students, but their parents as well, of assignments that we t urned in or that are due. It lets families know what went on in the classroom and what their children need to do as homework. The first example I found was called "The English Corner." It was for a sixth grade Language Arts class and provided a place for students to work with one another for their class. It had all of the assignments which the students were to perform and also required the students to use Blogs as part of their assignments. Technology is a very important part of our society and integrating it into the curriculum is a great idea.
Another example which I found to be interesting was also from the educational Blogs list. It was how a teacher was using iPods in the classroom. The teacher used podcasts in his classroom, which is something I have heard of but have never actually used. I like how the teacher wrote of each of his endeavors in using the podcasts and how he feels that they benefited his classroom.
I believe that using Blogs in the classroom is very important and beneficial to students and their parents. I would like to use Blogs so that when my students get home from school their parents can check my Blog to see exactly what it was that their children learned in school today, the assignments that they have and any papers which need to be signed and returned to me. I also felt that the "English Corner" idea was great in the fact that the teacher was enabling her students to learn a new technology and required them to use it. Kids love to use the computer and I believe that by requiring them to have assignments which use Blogs or Podcasts, that they are opening themselves up to our technological world, giving them a leg up for their future. They will also get enjoyment out of it. I am very interested in geography and I have had to use different websites in my own classes in college. It would be very fun to get students to be able to use these technologies to learn different aspects of geography and to even create their own blogs to demonstrate what they have learned.