Blogs used in schools

As my fisrt example I will talk about a teacher from Kempton Elementary in Maryland who used a classroom blog for her students to tell about a field trip they took to a Native American farm. She decided to allow the students to "blog" their thoughts instead of having a classroom discussion about the adventure. The blogging tool is great for students who necessarily don't like to talk much in front of the class. The students can also use the blogs as a way to interact with one another, display their projects or post what they observed from their science experiments. The following link is where I found this particular teacher. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/19/technology/circuits/19blog.html

My second example is that of Forest Park Elementary in Portland, OR. This particular school uses a blog for each grade and even the principal uses a blog to post important announcements. This school uses blogs for individual classes, such as Mrs. Morris' 4th grade. The students in her class with her help created Hut 10 blog. The class posted a blog which was titled " The Best Part of Me" in which the students told about what feature of their's they liked the best. The students also posted a picture of their favorite feature. The following is a link to Forest Park Elementary.http://forestpark.pps.k12.or.us/ This is a picture of Forest Park Elementary.