K12

What I found for my search of teachers that use blogs in the classroom, was a blog by a teacher named Leah. She showed in bio blog that the demographics of her middles school which is a majority Hispanic. She talks about how most of the school time is used for reading, social studies, science and language arts. So the students get the least amount of time doing math. She uses her blogs for mathematics. It explains many different formulas so that if the students forget in class they can go to the blogs and read over more notes on the subject. If you would like to check out Leah’s blog here is the link Leah'sblog.

The second blog I found was a blog about Novels. A teacher named Janice Robertson, and she used her blogs for novel discussions. She would write reading assignments online and would encourage her students to answer. She would ask things like how would you handle the situation that you read in the book. This way the students would be ready for the reading discussion in class.

In some cases it is hard for students as well as teacher to use blogs because if you search you can find some inappropriate things on the internet so schools are starting to ban them. But students still find way around the filter and some teachers allow students to post blogs at school. Blogs are becoming more popular in the school system now. Some other ways technology could be used in the classroom is by posting practice test or extra practice homework.

Teachers are starting to create their own web pages so student can get information off of the web page. Also teachers are starting to help students set up e-mail accounts and exchange them with other classmates, so that classmates can contact each other with group assignments or study groups. Teachers are also encouraging parents of students to go and check out the web pages or e-mail accounts, this way the parents can see how the internet can help their child.