Blogs

**What are blogs and how are they useful? Blogs in Plain English by Common Craft**
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Blogs enable individuals to globally share ideas, information, and resoures on subjects in which they are interested. Individuals who share common interrests as said to be members of a "community." One of the largest blogging communities is comprised of [|Edubloggers].

If you are searching for ways to use technology in education, engage your students, and facilitate your students' acquisition of 21st Century skills, you will certainly find ideas and tools in edublogs. Blogs have an immediacy and timeliness that do not exist in textbooks. So if you want professonal development on what is going on __right now__, you might want to consider subscribing to some edublogs. If you wish to contribute your experiences and reflections on your practice as a contribution to the the educational knowledge base, you might want to create your own blog.

**Interested in using blogs in your classroom?**
Check out Edu Blogging 101 and [|Edublogs] for some help and guidance.

**Interested in reading some edublogs?**
The following is a list of __recommended blogs__: [|Cool Cat Teacher Blog] by Vicki Davis, an intenationally recognized communications teacher. [|The Fischbowl] by Karl Fisch. This site is a staff development blog for Arapahoe High School teachers in Littleton, CO and is where the iconic "[|Did You Know]" (Updated to [|version 2.0]) Power Point originated. [|TipLine] by Jim Gates, a nationally recognized edublogger who is with the CAIU and is also a CFF Coach. [|2 Cents Worth] by David Warlick, a nationally recognized speaker and innovator in technology education. [|Students 2.0], a peer-reviewed blog for students only. Interesting to see their perspective. [|Beyond School] by Clay Burell. This blog is cutting edge written by a teacher who "had to leave teaching to become a teacher."

Teacher Blogs [|Blogs on Educational Blogging] [|Learning & Technology Blogs]
 * The following contain __lists of edublogs__:**

**Interested in starting your own blog?**
Check out [|Blogger.com]