Top 100 Teacher Blogs & Websites For Teachers in 2019 1. WeAreTeachers | Ideas, Inspiration, and Giveaways for Teachers Austin, Texas, United States About Blog This blog hleps to promote innovation in education through collaboration and connection to the most effective classroom resources. Frequency 1 post / day Blog weareteachers.com Facebook fans 1.7M ⋅ Twitter followers 561.3K ⋅ Instagram Followers 395.7K ⋅ Social Engagement 179ⓘ ⋅ Domain Authority 67ⓘ ⋅ Alexa Rank 25.4Kⓘ View Latest Posts ⋅ Get Email Contact 2. Maine, United States About Blog FreeTech4Teachers.com is a blog that Richard started in 2007 as part of PD course that Richard took with the Great Maine Schools partnership. 3. San Francisco, California, United States About Blog All things education and teaching! 4. Utah, United States About Blog Tips for teachers, parents, and anyone in between! 5. About Blog TeachThought is a brand dedicated to innovation in K-20 education. 6. 7. London, England, United Kingdom About Blog The Most Influential Blog on Education in the UK. 8.
Why You Should Start Classroom Blogging (and How to Do It) There are plenty of reasons to begin classroom blogging with your learners. Aside from being a perfect way to exercise crucial writing and communication skills, it also promotes critical thinking. With classroom blogging conversation on your class content becomes broader since it provides your kids with an excellent peer-to-peer contact platform. It's liberating to share ideas and opinions that awaken your learners' passions. Here are a few other reasons why classroom blogging is good for learning in general: It's a great learning tool when you get feedbackThere's opportunity for teaching digital citizenshipIt's good for building student-teacher communityIt attracts PLN opportunities for teachers Classroom blogging is hard work, but it's fun work. Blogging also helps to get the class outside of the classroom and expand the learning space. Considerations for Starting Out At the very least a teacher should blog every week. Is SEO Necessary? SEO stands for "search engine optimization."
Teacher as Writer: Taking a Poem for a Walk A MiddleWeb Blog Teachers need to write. I know that sounds preachy, and I apologize, but I do believe it to be true. If we want and expect our students to be writers, then we teachers need to be writing, too, and we need to be sharing our paths to texts and purpose with them. This month, I have been part of a loose network of teachers considering digital poetry, exploring the potential influence of technology and digital composition on the writing and publishing of verse. For this line of inquiry, it is not enough to ponder from afar what student writers might do with technology. I tried to do just that, working on a single poem across almost 10 days, from the rough draft that I wrote in the classroom with my students, to a more polished version that I published a few days later. In my head, I’ve been taking this poem for a walk. NOTE: You can view this Storify portfolio at full size here. The classroom impact Marshlands at Laudholm Farm in Maine
Quiz: Can You Spot the Fake News Story? In the age of digital information overload and the current divisive climate in the United States, discerning whether information you read is fact-based or fake can be tricky. As you scroll through social media, it’s important to keep a keen, skeptical eye and an awareness of our own and others’ bias. It’s also critical to carefully consider wild claims and suspect sources. A well-known nonprofit, for example, may provide seemingly credible sourcing for a particular story, but lean toward their own agenda. A trusted news organization may have sponsored content—a.k.a native ads—peppered into its homepage, which can be tricky to spot. 0 of 6 questions completed Questions: Information Take the quiz to see if you can you spot the fake news. You have already completed the quiz before. You must sign in or sign up to start the quiz. You have to finish following quiz, to start this quiz: 0 of 6 questions answered correctly Time has elapsed Question 1 of 6 Which story is fake?
School: Is It a Q&A Period or a Place to Explore New Ideas? A MiddleWeb Blog I’ve never considered myself to be a fearful person. Sure, I have been afraid. It’s just that I never experienced a genuine fear of the future. Like all human beings, I have a life that involves scheduling time to enjoy family, focus (happily, I might add) on “work,” and still find some time to relax and unwind. Being afraid of loss or any other variation of heartache is natural. What scares me is what I am learning about the world of education as a whole. If I tell the world how I feel, then I am saying it out loud. Finding courage in others’ words When I am afraid, there is a need for inspiration. This week, that courage came from an old stand-by, Teaching With Fire: Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Teach, a compilation of poetry with commentaries by teachers who have found strength in the words of others. Where our minds are without fear Rabindranath Tagore The poem I turned to this time was one written by Rabindranath Tagore entitled “Where the Mind Is Without Fear.”
How to Spot Real and Fake News When Alice scrolls through her social media feed, she's stopped in her tracks by the news that her company is about to be bought out by its biggest rival. She quickly posts a response, shares the story with her contacts, and emails it to her team so that they can discuss it later. But then Alice has a troubling thought. If she has been a victim of fake news, and then added to the rumor mill herself, how will people ever trust her again? Fortunately, there's lots you can do to avoid making the same mistake as Alice. Don't be fooled by fake news stories! What Is Fake News? There are two kinds of fake news: Stories that aren't true. Note: To confuse matters further, there are also people who claim that factually accurate stories are fake news, just because they don't agree with them or find them uncomfortable. Where Does Fake News Come From? Fake news is nothing new. Social media platforms allow almost anyone to publish their thoughts or share stories to the world. Six Ways to Spot Fake News 1.
TED Conversations in the classroom Can students learn better by sharing what they know? TED Fellow Nina Tandon believes in the power of sharing ideas and using TED Talks in her classroom. In addition to that, she is now using the TED Conversation platform in the Bioelectricity course that she’s currently teaching at Cooper Union in New York City. Here, Nina Tandon shares her motivation on using TED Conversations in her class: “I’ve been hosting a class blog each year for the past four years as a way for students to share amongst each other, but this year I wanted to extend our reach into the global community, to have the students engage in “external participation.” Each week throughout the semester, students will be starting new conversations. One of the students Samantha Massengill kicks off the conversation series with this question: How immune should science be from the political environment of its time? And Ariel Habshush suggests an idea: Our bodies are amazing nano/micro electrical factories!
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