Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Definitions

Blogging is the act of posting thoughts and discussions on the blogger service.

Blogger is a service that provides a page for someone to publish thoughts or discussions for the web. It’s a way for people to journal but to the public.

2 cents worth is a way to say an opinion without placing an entirely large amount of importance on it. It’s a polite way to say your opinion.

Feed burner is a web feed management provider launched in 2004. FeedBurner provides custom RSS feeds and management tools to bloggers, podcasters, and other web-based content publishers.

Monday, September 28, 2009

Education blog sites

http://edtechteachers.com/
This site is supported by various educators in the Memphis area. I liked this site because it gave many different ideas of how to support and teach students with and about technology. The learning highlights for me were Google Earth Lesson Plans to be used in Geography class, watching Obama's administration weekly broadcasts to be used in Government or Civics class, Edutopia to be used in creating Project Based learning, the Professional Development resources provided and links to otehr great Education websites.

http://speakingofhistory.blogspot.com/
This is a good resource for Social Studies teachers as the contributor is an 8th grade American History teacher. He creates podcasts for his class about American History. Not only does he provide good information, he sets an example of how to incorporate technology into the classroom.

http://students2oh.org/
This blog is contributed by students from all over. This is a good blog to read as it gives students a chance to be heard and understood. If it is our goal to understand our students to serve them better, then it is our responsibility to listen to them.