Advice from Richardson on using classroom blogs:
-start small by posting homework and links
-do some professional development before with parents, students and teachers
-talk about safety with the students right from the beginning
-get permissions and a write letter to parents informing them of the project
-have students read blogs first to show what other students are doing
-next let them respond to your class blog
-post a question each day and they have to respond a certain number of responses with expectations modeled beforehand
-finally let students have their own blog
-try to respond to student whenever possible
-teacher’s role becomes a connector, not just evaluator
I found some more good examples of educator’s blogs worth looking at:
Viki Davis’s Cool Cat teacher blog: http://www.coolcatteacher.com/
Shelly Blake-Plock’s blog on teaching paperless: http://teachpaperless.blogspot.com/
Nice simple example of teacher blog with comments entered: http://attheteachersdesk.blogspot.com/2009/04/why-i-stream-video.html
Blog using Ustream to introduce blogging in the classroom: http://attheteachersdesk.blogspot.com/2009/04/why-i-stream-video.html
Examples of blogs in the classroom:
Good example of Math blog with a class: http://apcalc07.blogspot.com/
Totally amazing classroom blog for elementary children: http://mrcsclassblog.blogspot.com/
Excellent classroom blog! You can even go to the students’ individual blogs and see what they have written: http://itc.blogs.com/thewriteweblog/
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