WordPress.com. Reader. Suite101. More and more teachers and their students are getting into blogging. There are many reasons for this growing trend. Blogging for 21st Century Learning To be ready for the workplace with 21st century skills, students need to be able to critically evaluate, summarize, and produce information. Many companies use blogs to communicate internally and with customers. Blogging is a skill that will serve students well. With student-written blogs, teachers can read, edit, evaluate, and offer suggestions to improve student writing–all without ever touching a piece of paper. Another advantage of student blogs is that students can write and post anytime, not just during school or class time.
Teacher Blogs Teachers should use blogs too. Here are three popular blogging options for educators. Blogmeister Blogmeister is an education blogging site, that is a safe place for kids to visit to read and write blogs . Blogmeister is convenient for setting up student blogs under the supervision of a teacher. Blogger. Supportblogging. Blogging. 'I like the fact that we are making stuff that people in Japan could read if they have a computer. It's like we're making ourselves famous in our little, out-of-the-way town! ' -- Megan, Age 10. 'Our student is genuinely excited to come home and show us what's going on at school.
To read his own words and listen to his own voice on the Internet makes it all more real and fascinating for him. This knowledge will help him to better utilize these resources, increase his understanding and awareness of the technologies, and keep us parents in the loop :-)'—Jim, Parent What are we doing? In collaboration with my colleague Mike Hutchinson, I have begun to introduce the tools of the Read/Write web to my students.
How Do We Do It? We used the book Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools by Will Richardson as our technical manual.We use a program called Audacity ( to record our students. Why It Matters? Using Feed Readers It's not! Student Blogs Sound good?