Blogs in Schools in the US

This picture is taken from Mr. McClug's sixth grade class blog. The link to his page is http://mcclungsblog.blogspot.com/. On this blog it seems that they use this more as a way to just show what is going on in the classroom. I personally do not see the benefiting the children as much as it would the parents. I see this more as a "parent letter" to keep the parents to know what is going on in the classroom each day. You are also getting to see the children do it not just read about it. I also think this is something that teachers want the students to be actively invloved in but in reality you probably are not going to have that many students involved in this. He also has the class notes listed on this page, I think this is a useful thing because when a student misses a day of school he or she does not have to wait to the next day to catch up. He or she can catch up before they come back to school.

This is Ms. Babin's third grade class. The link to her class blog is http://itc.blogs.com/babin/. On here you will see that she is doing the same thing that the other teachers are doing. It is a basic over view of what the class is doing. The thing that is different on this class's blog page is that she has all the students listed on the page with a link to their blog page. I believe this teacher's blog page is a little bit more involved with the class as a whole than the first teacher we looked at.