Classy Blogging: Starting Points for Newcomers
By Mimi Gilman
3/14/06
As an educational technology professor, I have noticed that teachers are really not very excited about blogging. Many have never even heard about it, and most do not know the benefits that blogging offers students.
Let me suggest some blogs that will get you and your students started in the blogosphere. Feel free to add more as it relates to teachers, students, and the process of blogging in the curriculum, and in the educational setting.
To start, explore Dr. Annette Lamb's Educational Blogging Sites. This site has a wonderful navigational map and all kinds of blogging starters: purposes, special activities, approaches, assessments, and much more.
My other favorite blogs are
It appears that I am one of those teachers that is not very excited to blog. I find them too hard to navigate through to actually find a topic I am interested in. Do you have any suggestions on good sites that are listed by topic?
This is my first time blogging. It is a requirement for an online degree that I am taking. I have heard of blogging, but not ever really understood what to do and what the point of it was. Thanks for giving a general idea of how to get started and some sites to look into.