Please join me in congratulating Liz Boese for her first real foray into the world of blogs: the Roswell Reads blog! She has done a great job getting the blog set up, and I know it is going to be fun to watch how it grows once the project officially kicks off! There is an email subscription button in the sidebar if you would like to get email notices of updates.
Category Archives: blogging
Other interesting blogs
There are a number of blogs you might want to check out. A couple you might want to check out are:
You might also want to see what the NWP has to say about blogging.
Why would teachers want to blog?
I know that blogging seems pretty strange to some of us, and I would like to take a minute to explain some of the reasons you or any other teacher might want to blog. Here is a list of some of the reasons:
- Blogs can connect teachers to the larger community of educators. From them we can learn and with them we can share. Last week, for instance, I was reading a blog post about an online tool to create cloze tests for reading. I posted the link to my blog and plan to start using the tool in the fall. I have gotten some really good ideas about teaching from reading the blogs of other educators. I read Mike Rose’s Blog, for instance, to get insight into teaching at my level — university students who need help if they are to succeed in school.
- Blogs can put you in touch with parents and other members of the community who might want to know what you are doing in class. Some examples can be found at Mrs. Winfield’s Classroom and Mrs. Vaughn’s Blog.
- Another reason to blog is to share your good ideas and materials. Some blogs exist just to do that. Larry Ferlazzo does that with his Websites of the Day. Teach with Picture Books gives you ideas for how to — you guessed it! — teach with picture books.
- Blogs can be used to publish student work. Classroom Showcase is an example of a school showcasing student work. Tell the Raven is a classroom teacher’s effort to publish his students’ work. He has been very successful in getting students to write! As one student on the Raven says,
I have been writing stories, writing comment on other peoples good stories. I don’t mean to brag, but I have written over 50 stories on this website! Whenever I can’t think of something to write, I comment on other stories.
These are just some of the reasons that teachers blog and read blogs. Why not give it a try?
