K-12 Classroom Blogs

After browsing through school blogs for a while on the wonderful world of the internet i found Mr. C's Class blog. I felt like this was a very extensive blog. This is the fifth grade class blog at Noel's Elementary School in Noel, MO. The blog has everything they do in the classroom on it. It has a photo album of the class and some videos of the class. It showed alot of the experiments they were doing and even had a contest on it for various things in the class. The blog had links to other websites, like the school's website and the library. What i thought was the most interesting in the blog was the students blogs. Each student had to write a blog much like we have to in EDM 310. The posts that the students added to their blog were very interesting. One was about an earthquake in San Francisco, one was about a journey to the center of the earth, and there was another about if they could make a law, what would it be. Also their was a post at the bottom about a girl named Kelsey. She was changing schools and she did a character sketch and they put that on the blog and said they would miss her. If i was Kelsey i would be pretty excited about that, especially because she is having to change schools. I think a blog is very interesting and beneficial to students, especially at a young age.

http://mrcsclassblog.blogspot.com/

This blog i found is Mrs. Elliott's Fourth Grade Beach Party. This blog is a little different this Mr.C'S blog. Mrs. Elliott doesn't have the students add to the blog, but it is more for the students and their enjoyment. Her blog has pictures of all their field trips or adventures as she calls them. She has lots of games and fun stuff on her blog. She has different stuff she wants them to learn and read on the blog. It looks like it probably gets the parents involved in the students learning also. The blog showed the students experiment they performed called 'Need for Speed." It showed pictures of it being performed, where the idea came from, and all the steps to perform the experiment. This blog is probably really fun for the students to get on and do stuff.There is a puzzle maker students can play with and also a reading club on their. This is also good for parents because they can do this with their children and also seem what their kids are doing while they are at school. This blog looks like alot of fun and i wish this was around when i was younger.

http://teachers.emints.org/FY06/elliottl/