One educational blog that I like is The Innovative Educator. I believe that students today are technologically savvy and we need to incorporate technology into our classrooms. This blog is dedicated to discussions about how to use technology in the classroom. The ideas range from how students can use technology in the classroom, to how teachers can use technology to more easily prepare for class and save time doing all the small tasks that we devote considerable time and effort to each day, to how you can get your principal to use technology to promote your school - a definite need when you teach at a parochial school as I do. Additionally, the blog has a very logical format where it is easy to post comments and many links to additional blogs and web sites.
Another educational blog that I found is Free Tech 4 Teachers. This blog includes articles about free resources for teachers, articles about ideas for teaching with technology, and lesson plans for incorporating technology into all the different disciplines. A recent posting lists a search engine that has been developed by librarians, teachers, and research experts called Sweet Search. This is a great site that sorts searches into sites for teachers, librarians, or students; by discipline; and it also has links to biographies of over a 1,000 important people. These sites are filtered to be appropriate for students. This could be a great resource for teachers. The Free Tech 4 Teachers blog includes pages for free resources, a job board, Google tutorials, video creation resources, and a tutorial to create a personal professional network online.
A third educational blog that is helpful for educators is Education Next. This is a web site for the journal "Education Next." One page posts current topics of interest to educators. On another page, there is an archive of all the past journals. There is a topics page with separate pages for government and politics, inside schools, and school policy that have many links to current issues in schools. There is a blog page with relevant and interesting posts to which it is easy to comment or tweet. There is a multimedia page with videos, podcasts, and photos. All the pages have many links to other resources and articles. This is a very good site to find information about current topics in education and communicate with others.
Hi Sue,
ReplyDeleteI am in your ID class and found a great blog site that I wanted to share with you. It’s The eLearning Coach. The web address is http://www.theelearningcoach.com/ This blog has information about design, elearning 2.0, cognition, and book, hardware, and software reviews. It even has an article, in the cognition section that ties in with this week’s assignment. The article is 20 Facts You Must Know About Working Memory. The article discusses basic information about memory, the capacity and duration of working memory, how working memory interacts with long-term memory, individual differences in working memory, and cognitive load. Check it out.