Blogs

Blogs are a great way to expand your professional development. There are a lot of great educational blogs out there for classrooms and for teacher learning.

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Choose 2-3 blogs from one of these lists that look interesting (or if you've already found some of your own, that's fine too). This will be a part of your reading for weeks four and five. Blog entries are usually pretty short. Read the number of entries you for which you have time. In our discussion board for each of weeks #4 & #5 plan to post one thing of interest from a blog entry you have read and comment on two other participants' posts.
 * Here are some links to sources to find your new favorites:**

Educational Blogs You Should Be InvestigatingFrom the blog of Mrs. Smoke - Making Teachers Nerdy - because being a nerd is a GOOD thing. Turns out she is an edmodo fan - I knew I liked her for a good reason! And here is [|her list of web tools] no teacher should start this school year without! Education Blogs by Discipline This link is to Scott McLeod's wiki for school tech leadership. He canvassed his followers for their blog favorites and the result is this list. Top 100 Educational Blogs This list is from 2006 but still has some good stuff on it.

**Blogs**  Blogs with a Focus on Technology Integration Here are two blogs that you might want to follow for good technology ideas. >  [|Free Technology for Teachers] - Information about new tools that are being released all the time. >  [|iLearn Technology] - Integration ideas, primary for k-8.
 *  Ways to Use Blogs in Education

A directory of math blogs: []
> An AP Calculus Blog - [] >  **Blogs in Science**
 * Why Science Blogs Are a Good Idea - []
 * Extreme Biology - []
 * KQED - Station run environmental science blog - []
 * Discovering Biology in a Digital World - [| http://scienceblogs.com/digitalbio/2008/09/more_classroom_science_blogs_t.php]
 * The Art of Teaching Science - []

**Blogs in Writing**
 * The Write Weblog - []
 * Lauren Barnholdt - A YA author newly signed! - []
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The Secret Life of Bees - A reading guide created by students and with significant author input - []


 * Here is a list of a few favorites of my own:**

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