EduBlog Insights

Now that was the first elementary school project I did using weblogs.

It’s fun to look back over it and remember the excitement and joy.

Here are some more Intel features on weblogs:

This Just In highlights Will Richardson’s high school journalism students.

A Space of Your Own shows how Pam Pitchard used K-4 student weblogs to motivate young readers to do their best.

Power of Publishing tells the story of how Joe Luft’s high school international students learned social studies curriculum via weblogs.

Leading the Way spotlights how Tim Laurer as a new elementary school principal used technology to communicate and connect.

Going Paperless tells how Helen Nolen, the principal at Buckman Elementary, uses a school weblog to foster communication with parents.

Blogging Across America

explains how fourth grade teacher Debbi Contner created a weblog to

support her social studies unit with technology so Ohio fourth graders

could share their expanding view of geography.

Now those of you blogging with your students need to share your good

stories with Intel. If you don’t subscribe to Innovation Odyssey, you

should as it spotlights some really good innovative uses of technology.

Here’s the feed. I always get great ideas like “Making Math Matter.”

Students in an honors calculus class are designing distance-learning

lessons in fractions, percentages, graphs, and polygons for elementary

students. That is an outstanding project. Just think, they could have

added a weblog piece and gotten some good conversations going about. It

also tells about ‘Tech Fellows” who get the chance to step away from

traditional classroom duties to work on special projects like this one.