Blogs in US K-12 classroom

I went http://www.schoolblogs.net/wpress/ and if you click on the link created by a elementary teacher it takes you to http://www.fineskids.net/. Ms.Fine is a fourth grade teacher and she has blogs that she does with her students on there. She also has games and many other links to learning site for the children. She allows the kids to blog about what is going on in the stories that they are reading. She said that teachers noticed that kids were not responding when they would come into the classroom and have group discussion on different topics. She decided to let the kids blog their responses to the books and noticed a great difference in the response when they were allowed to blog.

I went to http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=1337 and Mrs.Cassidy has a website that has short blogs from her students about different topics. She also has video of the children reading what their pictures represent. It also has video with pictures of the children in the classroom. It also has different information about how that children have blog buddies that they blog with and that they get to see and talk to on the computer. This is really great website this teacher has really incorporated technology in her classroom and these kids are first grade students and are blogging and doing work on the computer. The student in the picture is blogging with her blog buddy.