Blogging for Teachers

I love the idea of blogging when for teachers!  I think it's such a fun, creative, and easy way to post about things your class is doing.  I also think a blog could be really great for the parents.  As a teacher you could put links to things like project instructions, homework assignments, etc.  Then the parents can get onto the blog and see examples of what their student's homework and projects should look like.  It could also be a tool for the teacher to put up links for homework help, especially for math.  Then the parents can use this as a tool to help their students with homework.  Plus, what better way for parents to actually see what their student's are doing in school all day!  The blog can be a private blog, so the teacher can make sure that only approved people are looking at the blog, that would eliminate a lot of privacy issues.  You can post pictures, videos, and like a journal entry type thing to explain!  I love the idea of it!

I love THIS blog!  I love how it talks about what is happening in his class, it has lots of cool things to look at on the side, and it has links to other teacher's in the school blogs.  This blog looks cool, and he has a lot of widgets on the side and whatnot. And THIS BLOG is great too.  It's simple and clean.  The very first post I read was a reminder for the students about a project coming up!  It's so great!  This specific post has links to maps and geography sites.  And like I mentioned before, this teacher has links to math sites for help with math!  The next site isn't technically a blog, but I like it.  It's all about classroom management.  It  has fresh  ideas about classroom management.  The site, classroommanagement101, is chuck full of links and videos all about classroom management.  That's the thing that scares me the most at this point: how to manage so many kids!