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.

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."

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."

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.

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."

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!

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.

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..."

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!"

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.)"

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."

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.

Click this link or the picture above to visit this source.

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.

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."

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! "

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.

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.

"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.

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