Blogs In The U.S. Classroom

While searching the web for examples of blogs being used in the classroom, I came across the EA Teachers Blog, eateachers.blogspot.com. This blog offers insight to grade levels 2 - 6. Information within the blog listed the days assignments as well as any homework assignments and upcoming events for the entire school. This photo shows the 5th graders working with Legos during their Robotics Unit. I can see where an involved parent could use this blog to check up on their child's class work. This blog is a great example of how blogs can be used to make it easier for parents to be involved and informed of what is going on at their children's school. I believe this is very important when trying to improve education in the U.S.

The next educational blog I came across was the ICT in my Classroom Blog, tbarrett.edublogs.org/. The blog encouraged educators to share their teaching tools with one another and discuss problems and methods of improvement with one another. For example, this teacher has completed a diagram in SMART NOTEBOOK illustrating the water cycle. The post is asking for constructive criticism. Many links are provided. By the looks of the site, their are quite a few participants to the blog. By far one of the best ways to utilize the Internet for educators is the blog. The more the educational system accepts and takes advantage of the internet/blog technology, the faster we will see improvements in education!