Do You Have A Blog?

Finding new blogs/bloggers to read is always a challenge. It is great to have the "big guy/girl" bloggers to follow on your blog roll, but they can be intimidating to comment to. It is great to have new bloggers, especially Canadian teacher blogs/bloggers to follow. We can leave comments, encourage each other (especially for new bloggers) and create a great Personal Learning Network (PLN). I cannot begin to tell you how much I've learned about teaching from fellow bloggers.

My blogs are: www.blogjunkie@edublogs.org and www.thebookbin.edublogs.org

I would like to extend an invitation to Canadian Mashup members to drop my blog for a visit and reply to this forum post with your blog address so we can drop by your blog. Adding a RSS feed to your blog is really helpful so we can add your blog to a feed reader. Feedburner is the one I use. I use Google Reader as my feed reader. I like it because it is easy and uncomplicated to use. I follow too many blogs for things to be complicated.

Also, if you haven't joined Twitter (microblogging) I challenge you to give it a go. If you check the December archives on my blog you will find 4 posts titled Twitter Week (1-4) in Review. Might help you see the power of Twitter for creating a PLN and provide you with a few laughs as well! :-)

Looking forward to finding you in the blogsphere!
Cindy

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Permalink Reply by Shannon Smith on February 1, 2009 at 3:44pm

Hi Cindy,

Great idea! I checked out your blog and look forward to following your adventures with your students. I was particularly struck with the big lesson (about posting inappropriate content). This is a good one to learn early on. I hope that students in the class appreciate the experience and learn from it.

I have a blog too (only about a month into blogging): www.wordsmith.edublogs.org. I have rss set up too.

Take care

Shannon

Permalink Reply by Elisa Waingort on February 1, 2009 at 4:08pm

Hi Cindy,
I have a blog that I am trying to maintain - my New Year's resolution. I've had it for a couple of years but have only made sporadic entries. In fact, until recently, I hadn't told anyone about it! It's called A Teacher's Ruminations and the address is http://waingortgrade2spanishbilingual.blogspot.com/
Drop by and leave a message.
Elisa

Permalink Reply by Deirdre Bonnycastle on February 2, 2009 at 10:20am

I edit the Active Learning Blog Carnival which is a monthly journal of articles about engaging your students in learning. I'm always looking for new articles.

Permalink Reply by suehellman on February 8, 2009 at 9:26am

HI Cindy -- you can find my blog at Small Changes; BIG RETURNS. I also have a Squidoo wbsite with lots of easy-to-use tools and resources. BTW -- Squidoo is a great choice for an easily built website that you can use with kids. They can select a charity for their 'ad revenue'. The more people hit the ads, the more their fund builds. My choice was KIVA, so click on some ads if you go there.

Permalink Reply by Dave on February 8, 2009 at 8:52pm

My blog is http://birchbark.wordpress.com

Permalink Reply by mcfarljo on February 9, 2009 at 8:33pm

I will be blogging as a means of reflecting during my pre-internship in March and I would love to get some comments, ideas, and suggestions from experienced educators. Check out my blog at http://mcfarljo.edublogs.org/

Permalink Reply by Joanna Sanders Bobiash on February 13, 2009 at 7:45pm

Hi Cindy,

I'm new to blogging and I am just starting to build my own blog. http://adventurousedtech.blogspot.com/ There isn't that much to look at yet, but I encourage everyone to check it out. Comments are always appreciated. I look forward to checking out other people's blogs and getting better connected with other teachers using technology in their classrooms.

Permalink Reply by Neil Stephenson on February 14, 2009 at 1:15pm

I just started blogging a couple of weeks ago. My blog focuses on technology and inquiry-based learning, and centers around year-long, tech-based Canadian History Project called the Cigar Box Project.

Please come check it out: http://thinkinginmind.blogspot.com/

Thanks!

Permalink Reply by Neil Stephenson on February 15, 2009 at 10:32am

Cindy,
Thanks for the response and the encouraging words. A couple years ago our school adopted Google Apps as our school-wide email provider. Google Docs came as part of the package - and so our students can access Google Docs through their email inbox. Google Apps was worked out very well for us.

Permalink Reply by David Wees on February 14, 2009 at 10:34pm

I've been blogging with my students for the past 4 years, and for two years at the following address:

http://www.rism.ac.th/class/hs/davidw/

The idea is, the students rotate through responsibility to produce a summary for each class, and the other students have to leave a constructive comment on each other's summaries. In two of my higher achieving classes this has produced a feedback loop where the posts just keep getting better and better.

My personal blog, mostly on topics recently related to my Masters in Educational Technology can be found at http://davidwees.com/discuss.

Permalink Reply by Deirdre Bonnycastle on February 15, 2009 at 10:24am

This is such a great idea that I would like you to write it up and submit it to the Active Learning Blog Carnival.

Permalink Reply by Kevin Amboe on February 27, 2009 at 9:22am

Thanks Cindy,

I have been very remiss in updating my two blogs of late. When I have time (usually when attending a conference), I tend to blog the events here - http://IAmLiterate.blogspot.com

I have fun with photography so I also share photo making at http://makingphotographs.blogspot.com

Kevin