If there are simply too many choices, may I suggest a few possible starting points:
Check out Bob Sprankle’s Room 208 blog. When I found this website, I wasn’t aware it was a blog, had never heard a podcast, and I was totally blown away by the work that these third and fourth graders were producing. He calls his students “scholars.” They live up to the name.
Go to Anne Davis’s wiki on Improving Instruction Through the Use of Weblogs; in particular, I love her Language Arts Examples and all of the links in the Sidebar on the right side of all the pages on this wiki. You could spend many hours reading and following links…enjoy!
Mark Ahlness shares his students’ blog entries about their blogging experiences in his third grade classroom in the Class of 2015. Powerful!
Appropriate for an audience of middle school teachers, Mrs. McDermott’s Eight Grade Bookclub provides a model you may want to adopt. There are links in the right sidebar about the project, instructions (provided in a linked powerpoint), model permission forms and terms of use for the blog. Let me know what you think!
Feel free to leave comments. I can’t wait to see what you all think!
This blog will be our gathering place to explore how educators are using blogs to engage students with reading and writing in new and exciting ways.To begin, check out the teacher and student blog links in the column to the left (scroll down - there’s a lot there!) Once you see how students and teachers are responding to these new tools, I believe you will want these experiences for your students and for yourselves. In fact, I am convinced that the only way to know what blogging is all about is to jump in and read a variety of blogs and eventually post a comment or two to entries that enlightened OR provoked you.