The first site I visited was http://teacherlingo.com, were teachers from across the nation were using blogs. They used them for posting assignments, to contacting parents to share advice and even to vent. I like the site because it had a tab for lesson plans teachers had blogged. A negative however is there's no monitoring or formality. Some teachers use complete sentences and appropriate language for school, but others don't. However if you can sift threw the few ranters, its a good site to find a lot of experienced teacher talking about school issues.
http://mtnbrookseniors.blogspot.com/ is the next site I went to. Would you believe an English class has a blogspot account? Her instructions were "Every week you will be expected to post at least two comments to this blog. Feel free to post your own ideas or comment on mine. All posts must be relevant to class discussions and assignments. Please mind your manners and use this spot for interesting discourse. Have fun this last semester of your senior year!" Isn't that cool! She's using a blog to get her students to discuss home work and class assignment and to post questions to have other students answer! Every now and again she will post a discussion topic. She has chosen to post a butterfly instead of a picture of her.
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