This blog is a documentary of the 7th grade student's overnight field trip to study the bio-diversity and ecology of the Georgia Coast. The students are divided into teams. Each team is given a camera. As they attend their on-location classes out in the marshes, on the beaches, in the slough, on the docks, etc. each team takes pictures. The cameras are returned briefly to a tech guru who uploads the images to this photojournal immediately after the classes. Moms and dads back at home, and friends and family all over the world can see that learning is irresistible! Special teams of students also create video podcasts of their classes.

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This school's web presence is in fact a blog maintained by their principal and edublogger, Mr. Tim Lauer. Links on the homepage include: About, Calendar, Principal Notes, Curriculum, Classroom Notes, Lunch, Music, Partners, PPS, and PTA.

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I must confess being partial to this school website as I set it all up in August, 2005. MabryOnline is actually a collection of over 100 blogs. Even what appears to be the homepage is a blog. The site served as the schools complete web presence from August, 2005 until July, 2007. During that time the site served up over 30,000,000 files to users all over the world. The site is no longer the official web presence for the school but remains up as an example of best practices for the profession.

The site contains hundreds of digital media files created by the students, teachers, and administration at the school. After seeing the students' work, visitors came from around the world to meet with the students at Mabry to learn how they too could replicate these accomplishments in their own school settings.

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Podcast Central is a collection of over 100 podcasts made by the students, teachers, and administration of Mabry Middle School. This blog serves as an excellent resource for exploring the many different ways podcasts can be used in the school setting and posted in a blog as well as at the iTunes store.

Click this link or the picture at the top to visit the Podcast Central blog.

You may also click on this link or the picture on the bottom to go to Podcast Central at the iTunes Store. To view and download the free podcasts on the iTunes Store, you must have iTunes installed on your computer. iTunes is a free download that runs on both Windows and Mac.

The counselors at Mabry Middle School keep a blog. They include information about articulation from 5th to 6th grades and 8th to 9th grades, information to parents about cyber bullying, living with an inbetween-ager, the testing program, summer leadership opportunities, underage drinking, career counseling, and how to apply to the magnet school among many other topics. This is the Mabry Middle School learning communities one stop shop for all things counseling.

This is a blog hosted through Blogger. This text from the site banner: "2M's Blog of all that's happening in our classroom. You can read, watch and listen as we share our learning journey - a journey where we 'learn to blog' and 'blog to learn'. Please visit regularly to see what's new and join in the conversation - we'd love for you to be part of our learning."

This is from the site's About page, "Hello World! We are the 07 AllStars from Sydney, Australia. We are a group of students from Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6 who love to write about what we have been doing at school. We also love to blog and enjoy commenting and communicating with other schoolkids from countries far away."

A snippet from a recent post, "Would you like to save a planet? Well now you can!

A dear little seashell planet needs your help - a larger, bird shaped planet is hurtling towards it …….

Help Sammi - a cute little gnome in white pyjamas - and the main character in the game “Samorost”, to save his planet from impending doom by thinking and working your way through a series of mysterious environments.

Read our thoughts and experiences on our individual blogs.

We have been writing sentences, paragraphs and thoughts about the game. We would love to hear what you think ! Have fun and leave a comment."

Mrs. Drexler's 3rd grade class Wordpress blog at Shorecrest Preparatory School in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Brian Crosby is a fourth grade teacher at Agnes Risley School in Sparks, Nevada. His blog's tag line is, "Roll up your sleeves and get messy." This is a little snippet from one of his posts: "Nine years ago 2 of my sixth graders and I testified in front of the Nevada State Assembly Education Committee about how well using technology to enhance their learning had worked."

This school's web presence is in fact a blog maintained by their principal and edublogger, Mr. Tim Lauer. Links on the homepage include: About, Calendar, Principal Notes, Curriculum, Classroom Notes, Lunch, Music, Partners, PPS, and PTA.

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A writing forum for the third graders in Room 12 taught by Mark Ahlness. Here is a little snippet from a recent post about his Family Internet Night: "I finally got around to our second Family Internet Night this year, with just a week and a half to go in the school year. I offered it on two consecutive nights, hoping to get as many parents in as possible."

Mr. Williams is a 6t grade Math, Science, and Reading teacher at Sunset Vista Elementary School in Glendale, AZ. On his site he uses voicethread, slideshare, YouTube video, and podcasts.

First and second grade students in Mrs. Cassidy's class learn to read and write and produce video which is included on their classroom blog. This class blog features yackpack for conversations with the class, YouTube video of classroom projects, an animoto movie of students making Mother's Day projects , and video edited at onetruemedia.com. This is a rich media site for first graders!

Here is a little snippet from a recent post: "We've been anxiously waiting for our chicken eggs to hatch. They should be hatching next Monday, the 18th. Today when we opened the incubator to turn them, we found that one of the eggs had exploded, leaving yellow yolk on the sides and bottom of the incubator. What makes an egg explode? We don't know, do you? If you do, let us know by emailing cassidy.kathy@prairiesouth.ca. We'd love to have you comment, but comments have not been getting through to my blog. (Fortunately, this does not seem to be the case with the students' blogs.)"

Welcome to our Kindergarten Class. Check here to see what's going on in Rm3, Mrs. Wagner's Class. A snippet from a recent post, "I can't believe it's June already. Kindergarten is almost over and your children are looking more and more like 1st graders everyday. Thank you to everyone for the birthday cupcakes and flowers. What a great surprise!

Upcoming Events:
June 18th Dad's Building Day 8:15-9:15am
June 19th Awards Assembly
June 20nd Weds. 10:30-11:30 Kindergarten Performance (this is a change from the nightline)
June 22nd End of Year Picnic 9:30-11:30pm followed by pizza party in the room
Ghildren will bring home all of their work including their report card on the last day."

Mrs. Wagner's site includes a Furl link and lots of pictures of her students having fun learning.

From the site, "Ms. Mercer’s Class Website: Find out what’s going on..." Here is a snippet from a post near the end of school:" This teacher's blog is a very rich resource for the students which includes podcasts of class discussions, the class rules, a ShoutBox where students can compliment each other, and a link to "The Homework Club."

"With just three two weeks left of school, we still have work to do. This week we will be working on our unit projects on Going East, and finishing up work in our Open Court textbook.

Here is Homework for the week of 6/4/2007.

Our links for the week:

• Do your book report online

• Language arts links for the week
• Mathematics links for the week are the same as last week

Comments from last week:

• How last week went
• SSR comments
• Comments on our unit theme"

I am especially interested in the way students can click on the link for "Do you book report online." Pictured below is what comes up for the that link. What a great idea!

From Ms. Gauley's main page: "Here we are! We go to school in Bengough, Saskatchewan, Canada. We want to share what we are doing in our classroom. Come and see! "

This blog makes frequent use of BubbleShare to welcome people to the learning of these young students. The teacher says, "This is my 19th year of teaching. I am still fairly new at using blogs and podcasting, but think that it is an exciting way to share what we are doing at school! "

Lisa Harrison writes: I've been teaching at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools for 10 years. I collaborate with a wonderful assistant teacher, Pamela Maxey. My students keep my on my toes with their insatiable curiosity and thoughtful questions. From these questions, the curriculum emerges. It changes from year to year, lesson to lesson.

As teachers, we don't have to reinvent the wheel. This site documents the projects I'm most proud of, as well as other "works in progess." I will also share teaching ideas, resources, tools, and other things that have given me inspiration and help with curriculum development.

The students at Primary 6 at Loirston in Aberdeen, Scotland write regularly on their class blog. They have these blogging rules:

• NEVER give out personal information.

• Only use first names.

• Don’t include a name if there is a photograph of that person in the post.

• Report anything that you are worried about to a teacher immediately.

• Do not reply to comments unless you have cleared it first with a teacher.

"We are a 5th grade class that is piloting a 1:1 laptop program using iBook computers. We blog, Skype, make Wiki pages, produce digital videos, podcasts and vidcasts." A Blogmeister project featuring the work of Mr. Brian Crosby's students.

Bob Sprankle's 3rd and 4th grade classroom blog for 2005 - 2006 features podcasts, student work, etc. He writes about the change in his job in one of the last posts to this blog: "The biggest change is that I have made the transition out of the 3/4 Multi-Age classroom and into the computer lab, as Technology Integrator. This is a bitter/sweet change: exciting and challenging, but not without some sorrow, as I leave my class behind in Room 208 (now 209). I will be replacing my good friend, Cheryl Oakes, as she moves on to her new exciting position as District Technology Coordinator." His blog from 2005 - 2006 remains available as a rich resource of ideas for learning.

A joint blog by two teachers featuring student poetry written and published by students in 3rd and 4th grades. A snippet from the blog states, "Hello! We are Multi Age 3/4 Classrooms from Wells, Maine. We’ve established this blog for both classes to post poetry and comment on each other’s poems. We hope you enjoy!"

This snippet from the blog, "Hello and welcome to our classroom webpage. Click on the links above to visit other pages. Make sure to visit the software page to see if your computer has the software needed to view our work. If you would like to leave us some feedback email us. (Includes Podcasts, Morning Message, News, Links, and Software..."

Mrs. Perry's 4th grade blog features links to numerous pictures of students in class, scans of student work, her weekly web picks, and student contributions.

This is a Blog that deals with the thoughts of our Centennial School students about a wide variety of subjects from the very serious to the really light-hearted. Centennial is a K-6 school located in Lac du Bonnet, Manitoba, Canada about one hours drive from Winnipeg. The blog features "Word of the Day" podcasts as well as a variety of post. A snippet from a recent post, "Yesterday, May 23 we had a presentation on the importance of Unicef. We were told how the money w raise at Halloween and other events helps to educate the children in Africa. I asked the students in room 6 to give their thoughts."

We are hoping to transform this site into a space where young writers and voices can connect with news stories about their communities, their schools and their interests via audiocasting (and podcasting). Our sites will include Norris Elementary School in Southampton, Massachusetts; Butler Elementary School in Sacramento, California; and the Odyssey School in Denver, Colorado; and we hope to have other partners along the way.

The blog tagline read, "An interactive log for students and parents in my AP Calculus class. This ongoing dialogue is as rich as YOU make it. Visit often and post your comments freely." And a snippet from a recent post starts, "Some 44 years ago (when I was about your age) my father who used to travel a lot, penned a letter to me and enclosed a short article clipped from a magazine. In that letter, he wished for me a life of purpose and joy. The enclosed clipping described such a life and quoted George Bernard Shaw whose words you can read above.

I carried that article with me for years; unfortunately, somewhere in the many moves, it was lost. ..."

Darren Kuropatwa is the Department Chair and a math teacher in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. His students are writing their own textbook with their blogging. He also features The Blogging Hall of Fame which highlights exemplary student work.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it. Here's a snippet from a randomly selected post, "I am actually at home working on my Ed.S paper. I think I've decided to analyze my first semester's use of the blog--not the fall AP Lit class but the spring AP Language group. I've read through some of their posts and I think I will have more to work with as far as content and the dynamics of using the blog. Speaking of which, Caroline, I actually read your February 2006 post where you analyzed Blanche's speech from SCND. Had you read it before AP Lit. or were you just interested in the speech?"

This is a snippet from a recent post, "I have to admit, I'm beginning to like this a great deal despite myself, my own wariness of technology and the ways that I personally romanticize the pen and ink.

Many of you have posted some favourite quotes; below are some of mine, first recorded in the pages of my own journal. I'd love to see one of the class bloggers reflect on or respond to one of them. They all happen to involve writing. ..."

A blog by Ms. by Ms. Kirsten Corson

Here is a snippet from a recent post on this high school photography class blog, "Arts Alive was a huge success thanks to all the help form all of our students and the great partiticipation of family, friends, teachers, administrators, custodians, and librarians. This was the best event yet! Check out the photos taken my Brittney McCree and Zack Crabb of the Chalk Art event! The photo album is on the sidebar on the left!"

The blog tagline reads, "Prompts for student reflection. Students, read these prompts and respond on your own Blog. Place a link to your Blog in the comments under the latest prompt.

"I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details." -- Albert Einstein"

This snippet from a recent post, "I ask my 5 year old, everyday, if she did her best that day. I ask my softball players to do their best every practice and every game. I ask my students to do their best every day. What does this mean to you? How does it apply to math class? Does it go beyond math? Beyond School?"

This blog is presented by Captain Harp in Sacramento, California.